> Wouldn't it make sense to call them tenors or baritones if they > can do justice to those notes?
For me, it's much more about timbre than range. Most professional sopranos could probably bludgeon their way through most mezzo rep and vice versa in terms of notes...
> That goes both ways, to be sure. I remember seeing a "Vocal Method" > book that said men shouldn't use the head register.....
The Estelle Liebling book? That passage held me back technically for years when I was starting out!
> 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)
I love that song! I think the frog might have been inhaled vocalization rather than strohbass, though...
-Tako
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