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Excerpt from Voice Production and Analysis
Thousands of persons whose voices naturally are pleasant, sweet, acceptable, find, as the result of train ing, of learning to sing, that their voices are ruined. The result of their efforts is ability to perform all sorts of vocal gymnastics. They have the trill and tremolo and arpeggio and many other accomplishments. Their singing, however, has no heart, no soul. The voice is merely the wreck of its former self, and the vocal organs are irreparably damaged.
This result of the present methods of voice-culture is all the more remarkable when it is remembered that other physical training, if properly conducted, does not injure the bodily organs. Any one by gymnastics can be made a better athlete than he is naturally. A person who is taught to play the piano may not always develop into an artist. The muscular exercise required by such training does not, however, result in cramped fingers or in loss of sensation. Why, then, do the present meth ods of instruction in vocal music result so frequently in irretrievable injury to the voice and vocal organs To answer this question, not empirically, but scientifically, is the purpose of this series of articles.
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