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From:  "Jocelyn Gooch" <jocelyngooch@h...>
Date:  Wed Apr 12, 2000  6:22 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] help for female problem


Could this be coupled with water retention? Would diuretics help? Jocelyn

>From: "Jennifer" <jennibri@i...>
>Reply-To: vocalist-temporary@egroups.com
>To: <vocalist-temporary@egroups.com>
>Subject: [vocalist-temporary] help for female problem
>Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:59:52 -0700
>
>Warning to all you guys out there - this is about a female monthly problem,
>so you may want to skip to the next message.
>
>Over the last three months my voice has majorly changed for the better.
>I've
>finally developed good resonance, breathing, and for the first time have a
>nice chest/head mix (I'm a soprano). Probably because this is so new, last
>month for the first time I noticed a massive effect on my voice for about 4
>days starting just before my period. I lost some resonance, and my nice
>mixed notes almost completely vanished (about middle C to E a third
>higher).
>As upsetting as it was, at least it was only temporary. However, this month
>it has started again (just had a coaching and made some really ugly sounds
>at the bottom and could barely hear myself in places I normally drown out
>the piano). I am singing in a competition in two days (yay, there are some
>I'm not too old for yet :o) so I'm getting quite worried because this
>problem lasted 4 days last time. I'm singing Un bel di which has a couple
>of
>bars of low Db's that demand a good mix or they completely disappear, and
>less resonance probably means I'm going to get one of those "you shouldn't
>be singing something that's too big for your voice" comments. Plus it's
>really hard to be fully expressive when my dynamic range has just been
>halved.
>
>Is there anything I can do to fix this quickly? I know we discussed this on
>Vocalist a few months ago, but the archives are gone *sniffle, whine*. I'm
>willing to try just about anything.
>
>Jennifer
>

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477 Re: help for female problem Elizabeth Finkler   Wed  4/12/2000   3 KB
543 Re: help for female problem Dr Colin D Reed   Thu  4/13/2000   2 KB

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