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Summary
Fiberscopic video laryngoscopy was performed on five professional singers to determine
the presence or absence of aryepiglottic narrowing as a function of voice quality.
Each sang “Happy Birthday” and parts of the “Star Spangled Banner” in six different
voice qualities: speech, falsetto, sob (a low larynx with a vocal tract expanded by
relaxing the middle constrictors), twang, belting, and opera. Several features were
found to be common among the subjects and related to specific qualities. Aryepiglottic
constriction was present in all singers in twang, belting, and opera qualities. Spectrographic
analysis related the constriction to the presence of the “singer's formant.” The presence
of this type of constrictive behavior will require further research to ascertain the
possible benefits to those for whom a louder voice is essential and to understand
the relationship of this constrictive maneuver to the natural closure functions of
the larynx.
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*This work was presented at The Seventeenth Symposium on Care of the Professional Voice, New York, 1988.
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© 1989 Raven Press, Ltd., New York. Published by Elsevier Inc.
