thick register

American  

noun

Music.

1. chest register.

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Etymology

Origin of thick register

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

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 Howard, Francis E.

My choir boys are almost exclusively drawn from the working class, and the majority of them use the thick register for the speaking voice.

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

Flattening while intoning is almost entirely due to boys using the thick register.

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

I take them at nine years of age, sometimes younger if they can read fairly well, and my first effort is to suppress the thick register altogether in singing.

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

I have seen a singer pull himself together, and with a tremendous effort shout a high A in the thick register.

From The Mechanism of the Human Voice by Behnke, Emil