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From:  John Alexander Blyth <BLYTHE@B...>
Date:  Tue Jun 20, 2000  9:25 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] Strohbass (was pitch differences, bach and basses)


The situation of being placed in the second basses just because I could hit
the pitch is highly familiar! Thanks for sharing this info, Tako, though I
confess that I don't even want to try to make the sound! I'm becomeing a
prissy baritone - oh dearie me! john
>On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, John Alexander Blyth wrote:
>> Now here is the crux for me - though I don't know how loud Tako's
>> impressive demonstration was, my low notes don't sound like that. They do,
>> however, tail away in dynamic level, as I have bemoaned to this list in
>> approximately this fashion:
>
>It's not very loud, but loud enough that choral directors in college
>really wanted me to sing bass2 in their choirs (I suppose just the fact
>that I could "hit" the notes was a big deal to them). I would never
>expect to get away with singing in that register as a soloist, or as the
>bass for a small a cappella ensemble. I have used it in the context of
>"extended technique" on occasion. I generally don't sing lower than a
>tenor low C in "standard concert fare" if I can help it.
>
>It does tail off pretty sharply in dynamic after about Eb2 or so, as
>evidenced in the sound clip. It levels off after that and is possible to
>take it down to G1 before it is more buzz than pitch.
>
>-Tako
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John Blyth
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