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PERSONAL METHODS.

MclMp. JJoiiirc-. ha-, the unusual gift ol bcin;,' able ro listen to the effects of her oh n voice wlul-t ainging. In appearing in a hall rit." io lier she does not fix on any cine point :u, the centre ot acoustic effect : -lie sing-, simply into the hall, and if there i* undue re-verberatinn she can at one* msliiKtiveiy modulate her voice -.0 as to prevent echo, fi.-ind-naturedly undergoing 111-quis-itKiu as to the means by which t-ho ach'fvcv- an effect v. lnch is obtainable only l)v ab.-mt four or five great singers — namely, that n[ checking the current of breath on v lore being sung " fortii-simo," and .--uddcnly, as witli a knife, cutting it down to a piTP- thread of the softest i-ound, jJo! >res can only say that she does it " by an effort of the will," which means, in fact, that •-he l».i- been endowed with physical \oc:i; machinery denied to most pi opK.

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Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 57

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PERSONAL METHODS. Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 57

PERSONAL METHODS. Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 57