Re: Contact Ulcers (WAS: TRANSLATION: Grandfather and the dragon)

Jim Grossmann wrote:
>
> >> I'm going to try teaching by keeping my voice low.  No higher than
> >> low E or F.  And see if this reduces my exhaustion after class.
> >> And maybe, they'll strain to listen to me!!!  ;-)  I took speech
> >> long years ago, and have forgotten its best principles.
> >>
> >>
> >> Sally
>
> Sally, lowering your voice artificially will relax your voice only if you
> habitually speak with too high a pitch in the first place.
>
> More likely, speaking with too low a voice will give your vocal folds
> contact ulcers.
Those "polyps" you hear about?  Thanks Jim, good advice.  I meant that I
should probably try to speak to my class at the level that I use when I
am relaxed.  Maybe, weirdly, that will relax me.

> If I were you, I would make no conscious effort to govern the pitch of my
> voice.
As I said, good advice.  Good advice.

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