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

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 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

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 John Spencer Curwen

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 Francis E. Howard