thick register

American  

noun

Music.

1. chest register.

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Etymology

Origin of thick register

First recorded in 1900–05

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thick register

Roughly speaking, the boys to be rejected are those who through carelessness, excitement, or confirmed habit, force up the thick register while singing.

From The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c. by John Spencer Curwen

The tone used in ascending the scale of C, singing loudly, will be reedy, thick and harsh—the thick register.

From The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs by Francis E. Howard

In the lower thick register there is, as a rule, a small triangular space between them which gets gradually smaller as the tones ascend, until it is quite closed in the upper thick.

From The Mechanism of the Human Voice by Emil Behnke

Soft singing is the only effective plan I know of for removing the tendency to use the thick register.

From The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c. by John Spencer Curwen

Even up to the change of voice, boys can often force the thick register several notes higher than women sopranos.

From The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs by Francis E. Howard