Tinatoon,
Questions like this are fun, because they are unusual. It's enjoyable when someone comes up with a question that I would not. This is interesting. Thanks.
Well, It's because of the way that we're built.
You know how a musical instrument builder can change the sound of the instruments he builds by changing the way they are shaped? No one makes violins quite as Stradivari or Guanari did, and even their violins have different sounds. It depends on how they shaped the wood, the glue they used, the wood they chose, how the wood was aged. All that changes the sound of their violins.
Organ pipes, bells, guitars, oboes, clarinets, flutes, krummhorns, double-belled euphoniums, all instruments will sound different if they are made of different materials and made into different shapes.
I have made a few Saxon lyres, and they all sound just a little different because I made them just a little differently. They look the same, but they sound just a little different.
That's the way it is with us. We are all built just a little differently.
There are lots of possibilities in the way that you can grow and form. Your DNA will determine your physical form most of the time, because it tells your RNA to make the proteins you need to grow and live (everything in your body is, one way or another, the result of your proteins). There are so many small variations in your DNA that you will have many small variations from everybody else. We don't know how many variations there can be yet, but it's in the many billions because of the number of combinations that can exist in our genes.
OK, so you're going to be different from everybody else. That means that your throat length, diameter, and thickness will be different from everyone else's, your lung capacity and the strength and shape of your diaphragm will be different from everyone else's, your vocal cords will be a little different from eveyone else's--they will be thicker, thinner, shorter, longer, attached differently, the muscles around them will be attached differently and stretch them differently from everyone else's--the sinuses in your face will be a little differently shaped from everyone else's sinuses, and your jaw and mouth will be a little different from everyone else's.
Even among those in the same family who supposedly inherit very similar genes there will be differences. Some children sound very much like one of their parents, yet their voices are different, however slightly. They are just shaped differently.
And it doesn't take much of a difference to make much a difference, if I can make myself clear, here. A little change in the thickness of the vocal cords can make a big difference in the sound of the voice.
I know two sisters, very similar in many ways, one of whom is a very good alto, the other a full and powerful soprano.
Interestingly, their mothers (they are the daughters of an identical twin. The twins have always been very close, physically and emotionally, so the kids on both sides of the family have always agreed that it was like growing up with two moms and one dad each), while they are identical twins with supposedly identical genes, have slightly different voices. They blend beautifully, and it's as though they each got half of a great voice.
Just how identical do identicals have to be to be identical?
At any rate, it doesn't take much of a difference to make much of a difference, not in the voice.
In a way, this is fun, because it provides us with so many differences to discover and to learn to appreciate. And when we learn to appreciate the differences in each other, that attitude (which we have to learn, and sometimes it is not easy to do so) opens our eyes to many other differences and wonders to discover, enjoy, and understand.
How often we do not listen to each other's voice. We listen fo the words and the meanings, sometimes to "correct" them, don't we? But if we really listened, how much more fun that would be.
Thanks for the question.
2006-12-16 09:27:41
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