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Maria Carey does not squeak! Scientists debunk the theory that high-pitched singers have to make noises like rodents to hit the top notes
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June 19, 2024
Singers hitting the highest notes in Opera - and Maria Carey - do not whistle, report scientists in Munich and Vienna. It had been thought that to get the highest notes singers adopt style of singing similar to the way mice and rats make their high-pitched squeaks. In normal singing, the vocal folds in the voicebox vibrate to make the sound - but in rodents they are held still to create a pipe-like shape that makes the whistle. But the new research into opera singers suggest that even though high treble notes sound like whistling, the sopranos are singing in a conventional way.