Hi Wim,
I just posted a clip of a woman who sounds to me like she has the necessary vocal fold mass to convincingly sing in the "robust" register you mention. Please let me know if this is the sort of thing you're talking about. Her usual singing range is between G2 and Bb4. Thanks for your recent posts, they are fascinating!
To hear the clip, go to:
http://www.egroups.com/files/vocalist-temporary/
I don't necessarily think she sounds like a tenor, anymore than David Daniels sounds like a mezzo, but that's not the point, it's about efficient use of a particular mode of phonation, no?
Tako Oda
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 w.ritzerfeld@c... wrote: > The reason I talked of a 'robust' female voice is that the mass of > the vocal folds would have to be high enough to enable the singer > to achieve a high enough closed quotient (= percentage of time > the glottis is closed), to really sound like a tenor.
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