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From: acosta@locus.com (Joseph Acosta)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Kinesthetic Memory &Pitch
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.230346.458358@locus.com>
Date: 26 Mar 91 23:03:46 GMT
References: <1991Mar26.163620.8399@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Inglewood, CA
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In article <1991Mar26.163620.8399@odin.corp.sgi.com> gints@prophet.esd.sgi.com (Gints Klimanis) writes:
>HI !!
>
>I question the accuracy of remembering pitches by throat muscle tension.
> Has anyone (at least any male, since I am a male human) noticed that
>low notes are easy to sing in the morning ?  Later.

This can be flawed when signing in different temperatures, which creates
different air densities, thus the same muscullar throat setting will produce
different pitches.   As an extreme example consider what happens when one
breaths helium and then talks or then breaths a very dense gass then talks.
Each produces a different tone with the same muscle tension.


			-Joe Acosta