What about people
who are nonidentifiable?
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 22:16, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

as in people I don't know?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 22:17, Reply)

I mean people like me
who aren't alto, soprano, contralto or anything, just shit
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 22:21, Reply)

dying cats?

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 22:23, Reply)

When people ask why I don't sing in gatherings
I tell them I have a bad case of crowitis
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 22:24, Reply)

Interesting.
ask.metafilter.com/44328/Source-of-tone-deafness
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 22:27, Reply)

i have a friend who is a really really good musician
but really struggles with telling some notes apart. He's much better than he was, mostly through practise. His singing was something you had to hear to believe
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 22:30, Reply)

It's weird isn't it?
I just wondered if it was genetic or something that could be learned.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 22:34, Reply)

interesting link thanks Noel
basically describes me. I can hear the differences between notes, I know I'm not tone dead in that sense, and I can enjoy music. But I cannot hit notes for love or money. I wonder if it is a hearing or a brain problem
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 22:40, Reply)

Sounds like, sort of feels like vocal control to me.
When I'm out of practice I find it difficult to hold a note in certain ranges, but after some practice I'm pretty neat. Plenty of nurture for me, I've grown up with both parents singing, dad playing guitar, me and brother singing since an early age and I started learning guitar and singing in my teens. Smug.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 22:44, Reply)

But I can't find the note
let alone hold it. I've got little vocal modification at all.

Yet I've been told I've a nice speaking voice, which is relatively expressive
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 22:46, Reply)

Probably training as much as anything
Like the difference between being able to follow the play in a sport and actually do it.
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Sat 16 Oct 2010, 22:45, Reply)

Don't let Crow hear you saying that.

( girlinthehole, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 22:30, Reply)

I've not heard him sing
I'd imagine it'd be growly.


Ah, bass voices. My brethren in the choir. We can hate sops and tenors together. But not counter-tenors, they're awesome.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 22:33, Reply)

What about baritones?
I say "baritone", I mean "can passably impersonate Ian Curtis without going outside my range".
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 22:35, Reply)

Then you have an idecent range and I salute you.
But there seem to be distinct personalities in the sections (in orchestras too- I dislike violinists, too) and tenors are quite often twats.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 22:42, Reply)

in our orchestra you there are definite age
discrepancies in the sections
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 22:50, Reply)

What do you play?
oh god I hope it's not the violin I didn't mean to insult your brethren
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 22:54, Reply)

haha, no
flute
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 22:54, Reply)

I'm not sure what I'd be in the orchestra.
Probably brass. Though they tend to be very boozy.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 22:57, Reply)

most of the flautists are female, blonde, late 20s to mid 30s and teachers
(it's a community orchestra, there are about 7 flutes)
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 23:03, Reply)

In my experience saxophanists make great lays, bass players/voices are ok but tend to dislike me during/after the act,
and those with little/no musical talent aren't that good at all.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 23:05, Reply)

:(

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 23:07, Reply)

There's always the exception to the rule.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 23:11, Reply)

a shag artist's guide to the orchetra

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 23:08, Reply)

I will try and shag my way round the orchestra

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 23:11, Reply)

perhaps not my one
there are a large percentage over 50
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 23:16, Reply)

Nah, by section.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 16 Oct 2010, 23:21, Reply)