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Rh chest is used for medium tones; as before mentioned, the real chest-tone below E  has no place in a boy's voice.

The best results are gained by a trifling variation of these, with a leaning towards Randegger's and Dr. Huntley's; in fact, if the medium register is carried down over E (first line) to C (middle line), and the use of chest-voice abandoned altogether, we obtain an ideal voice. The chest-voice can, of course, always be used for certain effects, but is better left out altogether. Therefore, we get the following scale:

Voices trained on this plan blend much better with women's voices, and don't stand out, but add brilliancy only.

Contraltos (or altos) use "chest" and "medium" registers only. The chest-note resonance is felt in the lower or upper chest, the change occurring on Middle C for altos or contraltos only.

The principal break in the voice is between "upper medium" and "head," occurring on D; the break is very seldom noticed between lower and upper medium.

Exercise 9.

Take any head-note and train downward over the "break."