Dear Tako and Vocalisters:
The falsetto voice lies in about the same basic range for most male voices, give or take a few notes top or bottom. This basic range coincides with the range of the tenor head voice and the top of their chest voice, consequently, many tenors seldom use the falsetto voice nor have any need of discovering it. But tenors can be taught to sing in falsetto. I learned it at age 40.
Basses and baritones are usually more comfortable with falsetto because it is a range that is mostly separated from their chest voice by a note or more.
-- Lloyd W. Hanson, DMA Professor of Voice, Pedagogy School of Performing Arts Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ 86011
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