The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-07-21

mouth lead to what you call nasal
twang. English exaggerates the hard
palate, while Italian directs sound in
round vocals to the front of the mouth,
and the language is by far the best
adapted for pleasing enunciation, nat
ural position of the organs of the throat
and mouth and easier to emit on the high
notes than any other.
''Of course it is absurd for pupils TO sing
beyond their natural compass, yet that
is a common error. Here again is the
necessity for good advice-the best that
can be afforded. In fact, it is almost
worse than useless to afford anything
else, as many an artist can say who has
had to unlearn the dangerous lessons of
poor teachers, if she has been fortunate
enough to escape with an unstrained,
ruined voice. / believe that teacher to
be the best who teaches you to think
for yourself; who makes rules to fit you
individually, and omits to subject all
voices to the same training. There are
no two voices exactly alike. 1t is impos-
sible that they should all require the
same molding, and yet the majority are
thrown into the same category, and be-
cause one soprano takes 'hemoP in a
certain way the others should The ex-
perienced, sensible master teaches you
to understand how sound in your own
particular chest, mouth and throat is to
be produced, irrespective of any other
soprano or mezzo-sOprano or contralto,
and who gives rational reason for
every step.
"a common fault of girls trying to
sing is to hurry through vocal educa-
ton. Songs are the SUBMITS aspired to,
and exercises are the bugbears over
which they stumble and bungle and
which they throw aside half learned.
Superficial students will find out to their
cost that for every early opportunity
neglected, every underlying rule slight
ed, no matter how apparently insignif-
cant, they will have very mountain of
hard study to take up when the time for
it should naturally have passed.
Much, of course, will depend upon
health, physique, natural endowment
and application. Health is of vital i'm
portance to voice, the loss or absence Of
the one means invariably the loss of the
other.
Simple, nutritious food, regular hab-
its of exercise, sleep, rest and meals, are
imperative. The amount of practice
per day will vary with different consti-
extraordinarily twenty minutes at
one time is long enough to sing and two
hours exercise of the voice a day will
1f1n - L,
taught to sing standing and the use and
value of an accompanies The chest is
compressed when sitting, and the posi-
ton of the body so changed as to inter
fere with the best emission, the most
powerful, perfectly controlled produc-
ton of sound.
81 took lesson every day for month
in the beginning of my career, standing
on q raised platform with my arms be-
hind me, and with no other practice
at home, the lesson continuing twenty
minutes. That was to place the voice in
its proper position and TO properly di-
vide the registers.
After that / had three lessons week,
and on alternating days had an accom-
PIANIST play over the lesson To be sung.
In studying it is not necessary al
ways to use the voice. In fact. it injuri-
Gus to sing over and over the same thing.
firing the organ when the time, rhythm
and intonation can be learned by using
the piano and counting with hand beats.
Every girl should know how to read
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