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Human voice was a good article nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. Reviewed version: January 12, 2007

Contents 1 Falsetto 2 Different registers 3 request 4 Don't complain, just fix it 5 Anatomical Differences in Chest, Head, and Falsetto voices: 6 first paragraphs confuse it with human *language* 7 GA failure 8 Records 9 Accordion 10 Vocal registration or resonation? 11 loud? (db)

[edit] Falsetto

It's not really accurate to say that falsetto is more difficult to sing well. The reason most men have trouble singing well in falsetto is simply lack of practice. Pretty much any man can learn to sing countertenor if they take lessons and practice.

If they have to practice to be able to sing well then that mens it doesn't come naturally, meaning it is harder to sing in. A lot of men sing in falsetto but it takes hard work to sing the pitches correctly. 69.217.195.50 01:00, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Different registers

This article has some OK parts, but else it is bullshit... There are more voice registers than the ones mentioned, and the sound comes mainly from the mouth. The methods for finding the voices will not work for anyone, thus you cannot say "this is your head voice".

[edit] request

can someone write-up an anatomical description of the different registers? thank you – ishwar  (speak) 01:02, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Having read this article, I feel reticent to rely on Wikipedia for information henceforth! This article is a botch of poorly understood /explained half-truths. Flute register, for instance, is not even mentioned. By the way, the vocal folds are not called cords, this is misleading (they are essentially tissue folds). Victoria Burmester

The vocal folds are referred to as cords by the world book encyclopedia, and encarta. Information on the phsyiological mechanisms of the chest voice and falsetto are now added. In the case of falsetto I added the info to falsetto. But i will get around to adding it here.--I'll bring the food 00:28, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Can someone sort out the random swearing in this article

[edit] Don't complain, just fix it

If you see something wrong or missing in the article, don't just make general complaints on this talk page about how crap the article/wikipedia is. You are a wikipedia editor. Edit. Thparkth 11:07, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Please be civil.--I'll bring the food 00:28, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

This is fundamental to wikipedia. Looking at previous comments, I see people saying "Oh look at how bad this article is - there's a whole heap of stuff I know that the article doesn't even mention" - well fix it yourself if you know so much. That's the idea of wikipaedia - you're mean't to edit it yourself. Watto the jazzman 09:52, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anatomical Differences in Chest, Head, and Falsetto voices:

I've heard that the difference between these "voices" has to do with the thickness maintained by the vocal folds as a pitch is sounded:

Chest voice is when your vocal folds are kept thick enough that your chest is your primary resonator.

Head voice is reached when the folds thin to a point that your skull is the primary resonator of the sound rather than your chest (when the folds are thicker).

Falsetto is produced when the vocal folds are at there thinnest, allowing the most flexibility but the least resonance (little skull or chest resonance).

Does somebody have a source for this? I might have a book around somewhere with this info. 67.87.98.164 01:56, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] first paragraphs confuse it with human *language*

which isn't true for all human voices. a human can make voices without having developed any language. phrases like "can create different *meanings*" is what i mean.

Please sign your posts on talk pages. Meaning can exist without language. Birds and cats make all kinds of sounds which have clear meanings to others of their species, but they don't really have language, depending on how strictly you define that term. Anyway, very few humans exist without language. The sounds made by the human voice are used almost exclusively for communication purposes. —Wahoofive (talk) 17:07, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GA failure

Lead does not summarize article, way underreferenced.Rlevse 20:01, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Records

Does anyone know the highest or lowest note ever to be achieved by a human voice? This is, of course, rather trivial, but it would make the article a lot more interesting than it is. Watto the jazzman 09:54, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Accordion

Accordions also have so-called voices which is actually the combination of different free reeds. FWIW in German they're called Chöre, which literally means something rather peculiar, choirs. -andy 84.149.93.114 21:14, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vocal registration or resonation?

The section on this page seems to have confused or blended these two topics. It also presents a view that is controvercial and not in keeping with the pages on vocal registration and and vocal resonation. I am going to try and fix the inaccuracy.Nrswanson (talk) 19:34, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] loud? (db)

How loud is the human voice? I don't see the info in the article