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Liner Notes
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& Soul Vocal care with DAVID
M. ALESSI, MD
EXPANDING THE RANGE OF THE VOICE, AND EFFECTS OF NASAL SURGERY ON THE VOICE
MBADC: Can a singer safely expand their range, or is your voice what it
is?
DA: You can definitely--with training—very, very safely expand the
range. Very safely. An octave even.
MBADC: What about doing things like surgically widening your nasal
passages to improve your resonance?
DA: Surgical modifications of the resonating chambers really doesn’t
work that well. It may or may not be helpful. A surgeon can make you have more room in
your nose, they can make you have more room in the back part of your throat, but whether
or not that’s going to correlate to an improved resonance is entirely up to the
performer. And a classic example is somebody who has a really, really bad deviated septum, so they have a really bad nasal
twang when they talk or sing. So, you go ahead and do the septal operation, or the surgery
to make the breathing through their nose better, and all of a sudden they still sound the
exact same way…They have to go through training—a lot of training, actually, and
it’s pretty hard—to be able to get around that and to be able to get the air to
come up through the nasal passages in a way that will make their voice improve. So if
someone has a problem with resonance and thinks
they’re going to go in and get their nose fixed and all of a sudden they’re
going to be great, don’t count on it, unless they plan on really working hard
afterward.
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