The Soft Palate Flashlight Test

(And Other Vocal Crimes)

“With regard to the position of the larynx higher or lower or the more or less raising of the palate, he said that the singer need only follow natural emotional effects, and larynx, palate, and the rest will take care of themselves.”

Frederick Root in his interview with Manuel Garcia, Jr.

Werner’s Magazine, 1894

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