thin register

American  

noun

Music.

1. head register.

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Example Sentences

These can use the thick tones as high as only with great exertion, and, if required to sing softly, will pass into the thin register at a lower 33 pitch than the primary class.

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.

And the first object of these is to make the boy feel the thin register and strengthen it by use.

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

The quality or timbre of the adult woman’s voice is wholly unlike that of the child’s thin 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.

All the tones of the thin register are produced by vibrations only of the fine, inner, slender edges of the vocal ligaments.

From The Mechanism of the Human Voice by Behnke, Emil

So in addition to other reasons for using the thin register may be added this, that habits of faulty intonation are surely fostered by the use of the thick voice.

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.