In a message dated 9/11/2000 3:45:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, toda@m...
writes:
<< I wonder, is there some kind of a break much lower in your range? Like
G3? Many mezzos such dark, powerful voices, they don't ever need to use
their "open chest" voices, i.e. the baudy gym teacher voice... Perhaps the
switch between the gym teacher voice and the rest of the voice correlates
more to the one I experience, or maybe I'm just plain wrong about this
whole thing... :) >>
Yes, there is a more prominent break at that point in my voice. I rarely
go to full chest until I get below middle C, and not then if I have to go
right back up again. I find that if I drop into full chest, it's very
difficult to get out of it without a noticable change in vocal quality. I
can maintain a mix down to about the A or G below middle C (as a dyslexic, I
find the octave numbering very hard to keep straight!), and choose to do so
unless the dramatic demands of the piece need a harder sound. I rarely need
to go lower than this G, so I usually have a choice of how I want to mix the
sound.
Lee Morgan
Mezzo soprano
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