GIRL’S FIVE VOICES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 11 May 1939, Page 4

GIRL’S FIVE VOICES

EXPLAINED BY DOCTOR THROAT DOMED LIKE CATHEDRAL lßy An Mail-Special Cor respond hot I LONDON, Bth April. Coral Gunning, the 20-year-old Australian girl who can sing tenor, baritone, contralto, soprano and like a crooner, agree 1 to let a London doctor nnd out the reason for her 5 voices. The doctor said this week: “her throat jis unusually domed—almost like a j cathedral. The vocal chords are amaz- ] ingly elastic and about twelve per cent, longer than I expected to find them.” Said Miss Gunning: “My voices often come in useful. Once at Colombo in Ceylon my mother and I were walking along the sea front when a crowd of ; natives started to follow us. Without a word, they surrounded us. Mother was tugging at her rings, trying to hide them, when I had an inspiration. I shouted: ‘Go away’ in my soprano voice. They didn’t move. “But when I repeated the order in my mannish baritone they retreated, j When I changed to tenor, they fled. I hadn’t time to try the elTect of crooning!”