At 04:44 PM 06/19/2000 -0700, Tako Oda wrote: >A true contralto might surprise you with >her actual lowest notes. Many can rumble down to A2, some even down to >F2 (listen to Sweet Honey in the Rock)!
Wouldn't it make sense to call them tenors or baritones if they can do justice to those notes?
I know a coloratura soprano who decided to develop her chest voice (possibly on the same day she burned her bra :) and now routinely sings down to D3 - without harming her upper register performance at all.
>Women who can't phonate below G3 are rare (projecting above an orchestra >is another issue, of course). Current fashion in the gender-strict world >of classical singing simply keeps women mostly in head voice. IMO, so >men aren't intimidated.
That goes both ways, to be sure. I remember seeing a "Vocal Method" book that said men shouldn't use the head register.....
Then there was a rock or pop tune (in the late 50's) that contained the words "I can sing like a boy," (in a traditionally masculine range), "I can sing like a girl," (same voice, in falsetto an octave higher) "and I can sing like a frog." (same voice in strohbass, two octaves lower)
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