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Antagonistic Tyrannosaur
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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: The Abstruse Caboose
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Apr 3rd, 2008, 10:25 PM
Let me explain my delay.
I opened this thread after getting home from ten hours of work, and thought to myself that I should reply to it just as soon as I had caught up on the chat room posts made since the last time I checked this morning.
Like, 45 minutes later (Jesus Christ, you people) I come back and JTP answers properly.
This is something I've noticed for myself a long time ago. My voice has a much wider range early and late in the day than any time between, usually even with stronger tone quality and better timbre. More regularly, though, my voice fluctuates more wildly depending on the weather, probably a combination of temperature and humidity. Generally, the colder and dryer it is the lower and better I can sing. As a history geek, at the start of the Christmas season I always find myself singing an Advent Gregorian chant whose melody is attested to the 15th century, and like most music from the period it focuses heavily on the lower end of the male voice. Since that's when the weather in Indiana starts getting colder and Indiana is bizarrely inconsistent with its seasonal progression, the way I sing the chant never sounds the same any two years.
One of my favorite movies, Farinelli, is a largely fictionalized account of the life of Carlo Broschi. A baroque-era castrato who worked with Handel, he's widely considered to have been the greatest singer of all time, which holds true today since we have a good record of the sheet music he'd perform along with commentary on his technique and such. The movie shows or alludes to a few weird practices they had to preserve his voice or save it when it was thought to be in danger, and it's interesting to wonder how much of these were effective and how much was just 18th century quackery.
While it would certainly be nice to have a fantastic voice, which I do not by any measure, it must be said that I'm far more content with keeping my fantastic testicles instead.
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