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Thread #13909   Message #116851
Posted By: sophocleese
23-Sep-99 - 11:17 AM
Thread Name: Help: How can you tell which voice you've got
Subject: RE: Help: How can you tell which voice you've got
Well once again I go to my handy copy of The Musician's Dictionary, I like it. "Counter-Tenor: the highest male voice currently available through legal and moral means. Sings roughly the same range as the Contralto, although he can sing lower if pressed, and higher if pinched. Counter-tenors have a tendency to sing on pitch, but out of rhythm, and to sound like a cross between an oboe and a buzz-saw. derived from the latin contra tenore, which means 'against Tenors'." I hope this clears things up for you Jeremiah. Sounds like you're tenor, just as some altos are chicken sopranos some baritones are chicken tenors, or should that be rooster?