Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-02-27

the human voice. 1t has infinitely
analysed all the factors that 20
toward the making of perfect tone such
as Caruso or Eames or Farrar delights
with and thereby gains much money.
From more or less hapha gard mat
ter, the picking out OF a good singing
voice IS now a matter Of mechanics
This should he not only a boon to thou
sands OF ambitious but mistaken singers
but also 10 other thousands OF listeners
How many hundreds of deluded boys
and girls are wasting their lives because
someone has told them that they ought
TO go on the stage" or lin the movies"
appears in no census. But whatever
their number, there are at least ten
times that many wasting their lives in
study because some friends have told
them that they can sing" AS a mat
ter OF fact almost everyone believes that
he or she can sing. with a little train
ing" they will say. we could also draw
the immense salaries that Carlso and
Farrar do
The new Standardization can determine
In ." hour whether any OF these people
eally any chance TO become great
myers and tell it absolutely, finally
uitey.
has another purpose. Just as
mute inglorious NIiltons," So
,ubt there are girls and boys
9 possibilities OF the greatest
and opera locked in their
g new scientific method Of
the quality OF voices will
out these musical won
Ne.
put it as briefly as pos.
tuce perfect tone. Any
produce and control
,nes may make great
Science has discov-
lction OF these tones
.~iy by nine processes.
links, if perfect, make the
- singer. The singer falls be-
cath the standard Of perfection just so
far as any Of these links fall below the
perfect standard. 1t is possible to
strengthen some OF these links in some
cases. In others it is entirely impos-
sible. Sciences Standardization definite
ly shows which candidate for grand
opera can be developed up TO his or her
ambitions and which one cannot.
The first OF these nine links is the &C
curate perception by the eye of the note
that is the symbol Of the tone--to be
produced. Most people have this. and if
they have not, glasses will restify this
deficiency. The process is shown on the
diagram by Nos. 1 and 2.
The second link is the carrying of the
by the sight centre in the cortex Of the
brain. It exists there as "a visual i'm
age" From this sight centre it has to
pass to the sound-emitting centre Of the
brain for necessary communication to the
throat.
But in it's transformation from the
visual image to the sound stimulus, it has
to pass through what arc called memory
centres In other words, 1t would do the
singer no good whatever, simply to per-
ceive the note. The note is nothing but
a symbol OF the sound. And here memory
must be called into play, because the
"look" of the note must be changed into
the sound of the note and nothing can, of
course, do this but memory Of what the
symbol means in terms of sound. These
are the third and fourth links in the
Chain.
From the sound centre the impulse to
reproduce it travels down TO the vocal
chords and the muscles controlling
them. These factors must be not only
perfectly adapted to produce the sound
but the impulse between tho sound GEN.
tire, No. s, and the throat, No. 6. must