thin register

noun

Music.

1. head register.

Example Sentences

If beauty of tone is to be obtained, it is of the utmost importance that these sounds should be given in the thin register.

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In our cathedrals this part has been given, ever since the Restoration, to adult men, generally with bass voices singing in their "thin" register.

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A teacher is heavily handicapped if after getting his boys for the first time to sing in the upper thin register, he is to follow his delicate work by singing half-a-dozen verses to a tune which will in the very first verse undo all that he has done, simply because its melodic progression encourages forcing.

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Thus in the Thick Register, the vocal cords vibrate in their whole thickness; in the Thin Register their thin edges alone vibrate; and in the Small Register a small aperture only is made, through which the sound comes.

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

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