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Reath and to avoid sending too much breath through the vocal chords. The
breath must be sent out in an even, steady flow. You will notice when
you begin to sing, if you watch yourself very carefully, that, first,
you will try to inhale too much air; secondly, you will either force it
all out at once, making a breathy note, or in trying to control the flow
of air by the diaphragm you will suddenly cease to send it forth at all
and will be making the sound by pressure from the throat. There must
never be any pressure from the throat. The sound must be made from the
continued flow of air. You must learn to control this flow of air, so
that no muscular action of the throat can shut it off. Open the throat
wide and start your note by the pressure breath. The physical sensation
should be first an effort on the part of the diaphragm to press the air
up against the chest box, then the sensation of a perfectly open throat,
and, lastly, the sensation that the air is passing freely into the
cavities of the head. The quantity of sound is controlled by the breath.
In diminishing the tone the opening of the throat remains the same. Only
the quantity of breath given forth is diminished. That is done by the
diaphragm muscles. "Filare la voce," to spin the voice from a tiny
little thread into a breadth of sound and then diminish again, is one of
the most beautiful effects in singing. It is accomplished by the control
of the breath, and its perfect accomplishment means the complete mastery
of the greatest difficulty in learning to sing. I think one of the best
exercises for learning to control the voice by first gett
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