Big Trees, Masks And Singing, Capturing Holiday Scents, Unseen Body. Dec 17, 2021, Part 2
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How Does a Mask Make You Sing?
When you put a mask up close to your mouth, then the material can interfere just with your lip movement. The second and more important problem is that you sound like you because of your oral cavity. So when you put on a mask, it sounds muddy. And it sounds muddy because you've lost all those overtones of those higher harmonics. You haven't lost them, they're just down much, much slower than they should be. If if you don't mind the anthropomorphizing e sound, and so you sound different. This is the same reason that the chi leaders use megaphones. They want to change the distance to the sound going from your mouth into the air.
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