[Magdalen] Down and Up We Go.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I know of a number of women whose voices have lowered as they aged. I don't
think it's any traumatic event, just what sometimes happens.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Charles Wohlers <
charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:

> I note that Joan Baez' voice has dropped quite a bit over the years. I
> don't believe she smokes.
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> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
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> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Down and Up We Go.
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> I was watching some of yet another NCIS marathon (this one has been  on
> USA Network all day).  I happened to catch in the opening credits the  name
> "Marina Sirtis" who is the actress who played Counselor Diana Troi on
> Star Trek TSG for so many years.  I realized that she was playing the  role
> of the new head of the Israeli Security Mossad on the NCIS episode.
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> She is perfect for the part, being of Greek/English ancestry, but her
> voice
> has dropped a full octave from that of her Star Trek role.  I don't  think
> she
> was faking this new low tibre.
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> I struck me that most of us have vocal changes as we age, and often
> that is up or down in timbre.  The downs I've found are often  cigarette
> smokers.  Nearly all the profound basso speaking voices I  encountered
> at the VAMC were heavy smokers from the teens on.  They were  amusingly
> proud of their deep voices, not realizing this was from cigarettes and  the
> attendant dangers of throat cancer.
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> I wonder if Sirtis' vocal change is not due to the same problem?
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> For many men, the natural vocal change is to raise up the timbre of  the
> voice.  I can sense the same thing in my own vocal range.
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> We can choose not to smoke, but we cannot stay alive and choose not
> to get older!
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> David Strang.
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