Klarinet Archive - Posting 000094.txt from 2004/05

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Vibrato in Nature?
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 06:47:58 -0400

In message <BCBFDD1B.5D5B%520045578938-0001@-----.de>
Georg.Kuehner@-----.de (Georg K=FChner) wrote:
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> Am 06.05.2004 11:15 Uhr schrieb "Tony Pay" unter <tony.p@-----.org>:
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> > Apart from man-made sounds, I was unable to think of an example of
> > vibrato in any animal or bird cry -- apart perhaps from the whinny of=
a
> > horse.
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> > Does anyone know of any other example? Some exotic bird perhaps?
>
> Animals narmally don't use a certain frequency and hold it as You do
> playing clarinet! When I had to sing in University our teacher told us =
it
> is necessary for vocal chords to release and therefore the use of the
> vibrato is healthy vor the voice. (Singing very loud and long)
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> I hope this helps!

Thanks, Georg.

But, with regard to the clarinet, I didn't want to make my enquiry in any=

sense polemical, which is why I started a new thread with a different
subject heading. The fact that animals do or don't do vibrato would be n=
o
argument that we should or shouldn't, after all. =20

I just wanted to know if any animal sounds incorporated vibrato, as a res=
ult
of thinking about the various ways in which the words 'natural' and
'vibrato' can be meaningfully combined.

I do see that another way of attempting to combine them is in the polemic=

your teacher used to encourage you to vibrate whilst singing, namely:=20

'natural =3D healthy' + 'vibrato =3D healthy' --> 'vibrato =3D natural'

...but that has no medical basis that I know of.

So,

> > Does anyone know of any other example? Some exotic bird perhaps?

Tony
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