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   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018090321400980086-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > I've noticed that I sing in higher keys with bands.  Simple reason, I have   
   > to sing louder than I would ever sing solo.  And when I do that, I find   
   > the key needs to bump up a whole step, at least.   It's been a problem   
   > forever with me.  Now I sorta understand what's going on.   
      
   Jim   
      
   I try not to sing louder, but rather turn up the gain on the amp for the   
   vocals, because a vocal mechanism is very small and fragile and needs to be   
   preserved.   
      
   Ever hear The Jack Benny Program radio shows?   
      
   Particularly Eddie "Rochester" Anderson? Particularly his voice, or rather   
   what had become of it?   
      
   I used to believe he might have had his  vocal folds damaged by intubation   
   of anesthesia gas for a surgical procedure, because I knew someone who had   
   actually had that happen, with very similar vocal results, but instead, it   
   turned out that "Rochester" used to hawk newspapers - at the top of his   
   voice, until he ruined it.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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