Prof Marc Remacle?

[Donna Elvira]

Hi Anjaq,
My voice still doesn't pass on the phone which is a real problem for me on the professional front. After  work on resonance with the speech therapist it may be better but apart from that, I love singing and while I can reach about 370Hz when my voice is warmed up, that's still way too low for a half decent alto.

I haven't decided yet but, if I do,  the other interesting thing about the Belgian option is that I could probably have the cost of the operation covered by French health insurance. That would be very welcome after all the stuff I have already paid for from my own pocket.

Other than that, Dr Remacle answered the mail I sent him almost immediately, which was nice...
Warm regards.
Donna

[anjaq]

Well - its your voice, but this seems odd to me - your base pitch (without voice therapy?) is at 190 and yout maximum is at 370 with warmup? That would be only one octave! I am not sure this can be right. My range is from 80, 110 as a base pitch) up to 880 with a register transition between 350 and 400.

It it is correct, remember that VFS usually does not add as much on the top as it takes from the bottom. In some cases it does not add much at the top at all.

The top part is to a large degree about training. And about going into head voice smoothly - I assume those 370 Hz are just the limits of your chest voice, or can you really not go beyond that?

Also, I read at least twice that at least Yeson warned and almost refused to do a surgery on peopl ewith already feminine pitch because he said that it would not feminize the voice any more, since the reason it is identified as male is not in the pitch then and that is what he corrects.

How did you get your pitch data?

[thegreenrabbit]

Thought it a good idea to combine my postings together with Evenstars because it really is quite informative. After nearly 4 weeks voice rest I decided to give my voice a tryout. It's still very hoarse and I can feel it difficult to produce any sound. I did manage to say the days of the week. It's hard for me to discern the difference, so I measured the results in Praat which gave 226 and my baseline voice previously was 130. That's with zero conscious effort and a gain of nearly 100. Will be interesting what the next month's training show.

[Cristal Muso]

Thought it a good idea to combine my postings together with Evenstars because it really is quite informative. After nearly 4 weeks voice rest I decided to give my voice a tryout. It's still very hoarse and I can feel it difficult to produce any sound. I did manage to say the days of the week. It's hard for me to discern the difference, so I measured the results in Praat which gave 226 and my baseline voice previously was 130. That's with zero conscious effort and a gain of nearly 100. Will be interesting what the next month's training show.

WOW that's sounds really promising...I hope Prof Remacle will accomplish wonders with me too... Countdown 39 days

[anjaq]

226 Hz at only 4 weeks, thats amazing...

[thegreenrabbit]

34 days post-op VFS. Not quite healed. Still single sutur and glue remaining. Spoken carefully on 2 occasions, but apparently managed to overstrain voice. Have caught a sore throat which has not helped much, but will get it checked in a day or two. No fever, coughing, so probably not an infection. Self imposed silence until I know more. Biggest problem to date is side effects from anti-refux meds. Bad obstipation.

[thegreenrabbit]

Back to see the ENT this morning after several days with a sore throat.Apparently it's still a single stitch and glue that irritating my throat but says that it still looks ok. Apparently these things dissolve at different speeds for different people. In my case it has held for 5 weeks and probably 6, which means good support during an iimportant healing period. I will now limit my speech until I get the all clear that everything has dissolved.