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From:  "Alain Zürcher" <az@c...>
Date:  Tue Jul 4, 2000  1:25 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] Height/Range (was pitch differences, bach and basses)


David Cox quoted Tako Oda and wrote :

>The lighest sopranos and
> countertenors often tackle their passagios very low, sometimes never
> even having to cross it! They tend to have a very flutely, transparent
> tone.

<< Is it at all possible that these voices are actually singing in falsetto
a
good deal of the time?>>

Of course! (If you call falsetto the "mode 2" production. It is only a
question of terminology.)

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