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From:  "michael.chesebro" <michael.chesebro@w...>
"michael.chesebro" <michael.chesebro@w...>
Date:  Wed Jan 24, 2001  5:35 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] Re: Velum/Spec analysis/Nasal Res........


This:
> the thing you are talking about, kayes calls (ala estill) the
'twanger'.
> for those of you who do not (and will never) have the book, it is
described
>as the aryepiglottic muscles squeezing the epiglottis into a tube that is
>narrower than the rest of the throat. according to kayes, estill says this
>creates a...uh...er...'ratio effect' (and i make fun of corelli?) that
>creates the 'twang', ping, singer's formant, "tickles my nose", etc.
>

From where does she gain such information? This sounds suspiciously like
something hitting the stable floor again.


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