Conference turris::womannotes-v3

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              Ifin ya'll got a bucket.....I'll try...

    I carry a song in my heart.
    
    --bonnie

    I learned to sing on key a mere few years ago.  I have a small range
    where I can sing loud, and a larger range where I can sing softly.  If
    I'm singing with other people, I need to have the top part or I can't
    really hear myself and lose the whole part I'm trying to sing.
    
    and, btw, *I* think you can sing in a really groovy, unique way,
    Mike....
    
    -Jody
    

    1st impulse answer:  you mean you *can't*?   :-)
    
    my mom couldn't carry a tune in a locked suitcase.  my dad loves opera,
    but come to think of it I've NEVER heard him sing a note.
    
    I have what I call a "Musically Associated Memory".  Other folks tell
    jokes, or make puns.  I can come up with an appropriate snappy little
    musical snippet for almost any situation, tho sometimes it's obscure to
    everyone but me...                                                
    
    The secret to singing on key is to listen to your own voice.
    I've been singing since forever.  I useta have a good voice, but 2
    things interfered.  First, I started smoking (at 21, what a fool) :-(
    Second, and at the same time as (1), when I was living on a kibbutz
    there wasn't much to do for entertainment, so I sang.  I must have sung
    every song I knew (and that's a lot) at least 500 times, and I finally
    got tired of my own voice, and quit singing for about half a year.

    I don't need to. I'm a folk singer.

    
    
    14 years of classical voice training and relative pitch -- yes, I can
    carry a tune.  (And do so, often!)
    
    	Greg (bass section leader of the Windy City Gay Chorus)

    Ayup.  Used ta sing a bit...
    
    Barb

    nope, but I love to sing, gets me in all kinds of trouble!
    
    :-)

    Yeah, I carry a tune.
    
    Actually, given *any* sort of choice, I'll sing the harmony. :-)
    
    And like Sara, my "trivia" skill is having a snippet of song as
    an answer to almost any question.  Used to do it all the time in
    high school, which drove some of my friends nuts.  Led to my scenic
    design teacher, during a lecture on why musical sets are seldom
    done in a "realistic" mode, (because in real life people don't go
    around bursting into song) to come to a dead stop, look me straight
    in the eye, and say "Well, *most* people don't".
    
    Alison

    No, but the hills are alive... :-)
    

    Yes, but I only use it in self-defense, and it I have a permit!

    No, but that never stopped me. It's one reason my wife divorced me.
    (seriously) I can't sing well to save my soul. I do insist on singing
    along with the radio, especially when I'm in the car in traffic. I do
    get looks and it used to drive my ex up the wall. "Stop it. You're
    making a fool of yourself and me." I, of course, kept it up as it is a
    harmless little quirk.
    
    Phil
    

    yes, I carry a tune ... in a basket, in my heart, in the trunk ...
    everywhere it's legal [or I can get away with it]
    
    My cats don't like me to sing to them ... probably because I generally
    dance them around when I do ... Milo particularly hates it when I sing
    'Land of Canaan.'
    
    Rick can abide my Irish tunes, my Spanish tunes, and just about
    anything off of FNX ... but he carries himself out into the yard when I
    revert to my Latin or Italian tunes ... _hates_ the Carmina Burana and
    Gregorian Chants
    
    I particularly like the resonance I get on the high notes off the
    windshield in rush-hour traffic ... but go through monstrous pangs of
    insecurity when I change cars until I find the right harmonics for the
    new windshield.
    
      Annie

    Carry a tune, no problem so long as I depend on levity to hold up the
    other end.  &-)

    Allison

    
    
    	Eh, I ain't horrible but I ain't good either.
    
    	Even though from the fifth grade on through High School
    	I was in the chorus and the musicals, I didn't have a voice
    	that could carry a solo.  And I love to sing.  My brother
    	got the voice and doesn't use it.
    
    	sigh.....
    

    
    not recently
    

    Nope, not to save my life.  But, it doesn't stop me, music is my first
    love, and Jim Morrison's music my second (he couldn't carry a very good
    tune himself in a lot of his songs).  My son (21 months) only enjoys a
    hand full of songs that I sing to him, and the others make him run
    away like a scared deer.
    
    I don't care how badly I sing though, I still howl with the car radio and
    I love to have a friend in the car that sings as poorly as I do join in
    at the top of their lungs too.  :^)
    
    After all, I am Elvis's Love Child.
    
    

        Nope - I sing in the key of the back door.   I play guitar well
        enough,  but  when I add voice, my little Siamoose mog looks up
        at me  soulfully  with a concerned expression that says "I hope
        it stops hurting soon!"
        

    I love to sing.  I haven't got the pitch or tone control I had when I
    was a little monster in a Kiwanas Boys Choir, but I still use the voice
    anyway.  During the first hour or so of the day is best, my bass is
    strongest before my vocal cords tighten up or the stress of daily life
    wipes out the low notes.  Used to have about 3 octaves...but I haven't
    checked in a long while.
    
    Annie, are your cats more concerned with the slow "Land of Canaan" from
    "Closer to Fine", or the fast one from "Strange Fire"?
    
    DougO

    I carry a whole case of tunes in the car - and play 'em loud enough
    so I can't hear myself sing ! (I do appreciate music, after all :-))

    I used to carry a tune (but not very well) and after I got arrested for
    assault with deadly vocal chords, I gave it up because it just wasn't
    worth the risk.

    I think I can carry a tune.  I was always chosen to sing lead solos
    in Junior and Senior High.  I love to sing and do so as much as
    possible.  One can always tell when something is bugging me because
    the radio will be on and I won't be singing along.  My son loves
    it when I sing to him, although it's usually made up songs that
    include his name.  And if I don't know the words, I'll hum or whistle.
    
    Lori B.

    Carry a tune?  *Carry* it?!?!?!?!
    
    I thought I was supposed to drag it around by a leash!
    
    E Grace

    Nah, can't seem to keep them vocal cords at the right pitch for more
    than 2 or 3 notes at a time -- doesn't stop me from trying, though...
    
    Now, if you want to talk about *whistling*  -- *that* I'm great at...
    Bach's Brandenburg Concertos make great "walkin' and whistlin'" music!
    
    	-Todd
    

    Well, I don't like to brag, but I did sing professionally, that
    is, people threw money at me. (nobody does that anymore, sniff).
    Up to the ripe age of five, I would sing to the crowd waiting to
    enter my Dad's carny sideshow from the soundtruck, along with
    whatever pop record he was playing to attract attention.
    (A you're adorable, B you're so beu-tif-ul, C you're a cutie...
    -guess the decade!-).  Anyway, i had blond curls, a rosy chubby
    face, a male shirley temple!  Well, hardly male, i mean, puberty
    came along twenty years later and changed my voice forever, ruining
    my singing career, unless you need someone to harmonize with a
    washtub base....i coulda been wayne newton, if they'ed neutered
    me early enough...mwr
    

    
    I think I do - no-one in any of my choirs has kicked me yet. :-}
    But then, I sing in a mob for company - I'm too shy to solo.
    And in the car I turn the tape up really loud....
    
    Main thing is - I *love* to sing, and hang the accuracy!
    'gail  

RE: .27

People used to throw money at me when I sang, too, but it was always to 
persuade me to shut up.

--bonnie

	All the time -- it seems most of the time I have a song running through
	the back of my head.

	Also, when I play my radio in my cube, I'm constantly joining in
	for a phrase or two, until I remember I might be disturbing someone 
	and shut up again. (Although I haven't had any complaints yet)



	-Andy

    You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish.
    
    D!

Either way, you can practice your scales.

    I am completely in a-chord with the two previous notes.
    
    -- Mike

    I think your jjust using this string for the halibut.
    
    Phil

    On a SCALE of 1 to 10, these puns are, well..never mind.
    
    Kate
    

I used to, but now I'm afraid it'll be turned against me.

Barb

p.s. How did the fish flounder of the tank and into the tunes?