Thanks to mike and sdr, for your suggestions. I think you're probably advising much the same thing. To my non-N.Am. ears though, that vowel seems as far from what I want as my own Scottish way of saying 'book' or 'look' would be! My next step is to check recordings of this scene - something I hate to do. john
>-Maybe something in the neighborhood of an [U] vowel, as in "book" or "look" ?
>-If you round your lips more, that might give them more of what they're >looking for, >but it will cut off some of your singer's formant.
-Sing with the jaw a bit more closed on that note. >john, > > if your 'fu' is turning into 'fo' and you're losing your singer's >formant, you might think of cheating it towards an umlaut 'u' (or, you might >even try that valley girl 'u' some were complaining about last week). > >mike
John Blyth Baritono robusto e lirico Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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