chest is used for medium tones; as before mentioned, the real chest-tone below E
has no place in a boy's voice. The best results are gained by a trifling variation of these, with a leaning towards Randegger's and Dr. Huntley's; in fact, if the medium register is carried down over E (first line) to C (middle line)
, and the use of chest-voice abandoned altogether, we obtain an ideal voice. The chest-voice can, of course, always be used for certain effects, but is better left out altogether. Therefore, we get the following scale:
(Lower Medium Resonance felt in highest part of back of mouth, on hard palate. Upper Medium felt on top of mouth, well forward. Head Resonance felt at the highest part of back of head.)
Voices trained on this plan blend much better with women's voices, and don't stand out, but add brilliancy only.
Contraltos (or altos) use "chest" and "medium" registers only. The chest-note resonance is felt in the lower or upper chest, the change
occurring on Middle C for altos or contraltos only.
The principal break in the voice is between "upper medium" and "head," occurring on D; the break is very seldom noticed between lower and upper medium.
Exercise 9.
Take any head-note and train downward over the "break."
