thick register

American  

noun

Music.

1. chest register.

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Etymology

Origin of thick register

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

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thick register

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 Curwen, John Spencer

This practice continued from the time part-singing begins in the music course, compels the boys to use 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 Howard, Francis E.

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 Howard, Francis E.

They can only do so by using the thick register, which it is so desirable to utterly avoid.

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.

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