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John Nix – Ingo’s written and talked
a lot about vocal tract inertance, and I’m wondering, do you
feel that this lower mandible position (and, hopefully, the lower
laryngeal position that comes with that) is assisting in getting
the conditions right so we have that inertive vocal tract? Also,
just a challenge to our researchers is the relationship between
jaw opening, laryngeal position, and the epilaryngeal opening. Audio
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Jeannie Lovetri– I just wanted to say about
the TMJ, I am a sufferer - and know quite a bit about it, and I can
give you a name of at least one person who’s a major singer
with the Metropolitan Opera who has this. I do know that my dentist
treats a lot of people who are professional singers, and a number
of them are singers with the Metropolitan Opera with severe TMJ
problems. He did tell me it is a common problem because we have
to open our mouths so much that it irritates the joint. I think
that is a whole area of research that was done years ago…
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Susan Buesgens– I have an interesting situation:
I’ve just had a ton of dental work done, and in doing the typical
carbon thing that dentists do to check your bite, I said "do you
want me to close this way, or this way" and he said "oh you’re
one of those people" and I said "what do you mean?" and he said
"there are a number of people, not very many, that have double bites."
So he had to set my new bite to accommodate both bites. For the
next 2 years, I fooled around and realized that dropping the jaw
had meant different things for me as a singer, and I had to accommodate
the jaw drop in both bites to do what you’re doing. So maybe
the dental profession would be one area to look for research in
this area, and it’s important to know in case you have students
that have that you might ask them about their bite. Audio
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Stephen Austin – I have a 12 year old son who has a Pueblan
Milk Snake by the name of Adobe, so watching a snake feed is an
interesting observation, particularly to this discussion: I
don’t remember my jaw anatomy too well, I know that our jaws
are different from a reptile’s jaw, at least a snake jaw,
and I don’t know how much freedom we have in actually dislocating the
mandible in the back. It’s a complex joint, I do remember that,
but I don’t remember how much. Audio
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Linda Carroll, New York – I know that you have talked in
the past about the possibility of consonant formants. Do you believe,
then, that the more accomplished and elite singer might be lining
up the formants as in we heard earlier this morning of looking at
the energies from at times 3 and perhaps even times 5, to line those
up appropriately with the consonant formants to then make a smoother
transition vowel to consonant? Audio
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Viggio Pettersen – Just to give you a response in your cry
for more research in this area, I just want to inform you that there
is progress on tongue shapes both in vowels and consonants. We are
doing it by EMG in the neck and head area and ultrasound on tongue
shapes. So we have done some work on it in Norway and we are just
waiting on the latest equipment to use and we will have it in October.
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Mary Enid Haines, Toronto, Ottawa, Canada – Just in terms
of details about TMJ research, there is some wonderful work coming out
of McMaster University with the Physiotherapy clinic and dealing
with the McKenzie technique of neck release. The person who you
can look for is Anita Gross who is the doctor of physiotherapy who’s
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