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Re: subharmonics

🔗John Starrett <jstarret@carbon.cudenver.edu>

10/31/2000 7:38:55 AM

> From: "Paul H. Erlich" <PERLICH@ACADIAN-ASSET.COM>
>
> Monz wrote,
>
> >I was stunned to find out that the
> >'subharmonic' singing technique (i.e., Tuvan throat singers)
> >is a normal part of everyday American speech.
>
> Not to mention everyday American singing (i.e. rock singing) -- Janis Joplin
> especially.
>

And Kenny Rogers, and Bill Clinton

--
John Starrett
"We have nothing to fear but the scary stuff."
http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret/microtone.html

🔗Monz <MONZ@JUNO.COM>

11/1/2000 1:07:00 PM

--- In tuning@egroups.com, John Starrett <jstarret@c...> wrote:

> http://www.egroups.com/message/tuning/15176
>
> > From: "Paul H. Erlich" <PERLICH@A...>
> >
> > Monz wrote,
> >
> > >I was stunned to find out that the
> > >'subharmonic' singing technique (i.e., Tuvan throat singers)
> > >is a normal part of everyday American speech.
> >
> > Not to mention everyday American singing (i.e. rock singing)
> > -- Janis Joplin especially.
> >
>
> And Kenny Rogers, and Bill Clinton

Yup. I'm not familiar enough with Kenny Rogers to recall any
specific examples, but Janis used it a lot, and you can hear
it in virtually every speech Bill Clinton's ever given, and
in fact, it plays a vital role in good impersonations of him by
comedians as well.

-monz
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/homepage.html