2007-02-05 09:57:31 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
My voice sounds really high on the phone - I sound about five!. A couple of years ago, my boyfriend was selling his car in the local paper - a man rang up to enquire about it, I answered the phone. The man said "hello, is your daddy there" - I was 36 at the time. I was too embarrased to tell the chap this so I just said "yes, I'll go and get him" We still laugh about it now - four years later!
2007-02-05 10:03:13 · answer #1 · answered by Bexs 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your voice is higher than what? If you mean it is higher than it seems normally the answer is easy. When you speak the sound reaches your brain through your ears AND through your bones. Just try tapping your forehead lightly no one else will hear the sound as transmitted through the air is negligible, but you will hear it as it transmitted through your skull. That proves that sound transmission through the bones is noticeable. Now, when sound goes through the bone the higher frequencies are lost .(incidentally the telephone only transmits a small mid range band of frequencies, you loose high frequencies and low ones which is why voices over the telephone are sound quite different)
Back to your question, this all means that sound transmitted through your skull will always have a lot more low frequencies in it and the tone is lower and darker. If you hear any recording of your voice (tape,CD, radio) it will not have these frequencies and you hear yourself as other people hear you.
Yes it is a shock. The voice other people hear is never as sexy as the one you hear in your own head.
I think this is the reason. I doubt very much if, when you sing a C it would come out on the radio as a D. That doesn't happen unless there is something wrong or someone has used a special effect.
2007-02-05 10:25:49 · answer #2 · answered by Richard T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since you know and like the song you are more comfortable with it and you sing freely which can get you surprised, in good way or bad way.
2007-02-05 10:06:27 · answer #3 · answered by Chapulin 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dunno. But your right! Like when I sing a long with Kelly Clarkson and Christina Agulira I can hit those high notes, but in choir I'm an alto! lol
2007-02-05 10:02:04 · answer #4 · answered by soccer_frogger 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If that happens to you, then you must just have problems matching pitch. ;-)
2007-02-05 10:01:34 · answer #5 · answered by Venin_Noir 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋