Funny, I believe I read that on a site for vocalists...?
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[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]The Millionaire Waltz wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Funny, I believe I read that on a site for vocalists...?[/QUOTE]
Read what, that it's fixed at birth, or that you can stretch it too far?
If it's the "fixed at birth" thing, I have to discount this on merely one technicality. When I was born, I could not hit the next G down from the F in All Dead, All Dead, when I was a newborn. Took me 18 years to manage that!
But yeah, in all seriousness, I think the genes pretty much instruct your vocal cords to grow to a specific shape and size, but it is what we do to our voices (abuse, or training, depending on how you look at it) that really shapes them and changes them. You can make your voice higher or lower - or, at least, learn how to utilise it in ways you didn't know about before. I'm not talking radical changes, but it can be done.
Read what, that it's fixed at birth, or that you can stretch it too far?
If it's the "fixed at birth" thing, I have to discount this on merely one technicality. When I was born, I could not hit the next G down from the F in All Dead, All Dead, when I was a newborn. Took me 18 years to manage that!
But yeah, in all seriousness, I think the genes pretty much instruct your vocal cords to grow to a specific shape and size, but it is what we do to our voices (abuse, or training, depending on how you look at it) that really shapes them and changes them. You can make your voice higher or lower - or, at least, learn how to utilise it in ways you didn't know about before. I'm not talking radical changes, but it can be done.