{"items": [{"author": "Todd", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124674967202?comment_id=10100124677237652", "anchor": "fb-10100124677237652", "service": "fb", "text": "\"One possibility is people interpret \"happy\" in a range of ways, where some people are giving the limits of their range while others are just giving where they feel their voice sounds best?\"
I realized after I submitted my response that I could have shaved a few notes off of both ends, but I didn't feel uncomfortable going to the edge of my range, so maybe I did the right thing. I'm also not sure how many people included head voice as part of their range, which could also throw things off.", "timestamp": "1575216015"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124674967202?comment_id=10100124677237652&reply_comment_id=10100124678031062", "anchor": "fb-10100124677237652_10100124678031062", "service": "fb", "text": "→ \"I'm also not sure how many people included head voice as part of their range, which could also throw things off.\"
And then also include that a bunch of people don't know what their head voice is.", "timestamp": "1575216338"}, {"author": "Todd", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124674967202?comment_id=10100124677237652&reply_comment_id=10100124678999122", "anchor": "fb-10100124677237652_10100124678999122", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Jeff Kaufman Right, I'd assume they would not include it. The funny thing is that I've been taking vocal lessons and now I'm having trouble identifying exactly where my break point is - this would NOT have been an issue a year ago. I did test it out and come up with roughly 2/3 octaves chest voice and 1/3 head, in case it's helpful to you to be able to strip out the head voice data.", "timestamp": "1575216557"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124674967202?comment_id=10100124677237652&reply_comment_id=10100124679358402", "anchor": "fb-10100124677237652_10100124679358402", "service": "fb", "text": "→ I think I really just care about what I asked on the survey: where do people feel happy?", "timestamp": "1575216736"}, {"author": "Micah", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124674967202?comment_id=10100124691788492", "anchor": "fb-10100124691788492", "service": "fb", "text": "Can you interpret/plot these results allowing for one octave of equivalence - that is, assuming (as one normally does in a mixed-voice group) that people will sing a melody in either of two octaves?", "timestamp": "1575222730"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124674967202?comment_id=10100124691788492&reply_comment_id=10100124700116802", "anchor": "fb-10100124691788492_10100124700116802", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Micah that's what https://www.jefftk.com/number-of-unhappy-singers-by-range... does.", "timestamp": "1575226109"}, {"author": "Micah", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124674967202?comment_id=10100124691788492&reply_comment_id=10100124715620732", "anchor": "fb-10100124691788492_10100124715620732", "service": "fb", "text": "→ I missed that earlier. Thanks!", "timestamp": "1575233331"}, {"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124674967202?comment_id=10100124703624772", "anchor": "fb-10100124703624772", "service": "fb", "text": "An advantage of C-C rather than Bb to Bb would be that for those who _can_ read music, the former is much easier. I think you may also wind up with more familiar harmonies for those who harmonize extemporaneously, but am not sure of that.
I realize that neither of these is central to your concern.", "timestamp": "1575227338"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124674967202?comment_id=10100124703624772&reply_comment_id=10100124709847302", "anchor": "fb-10100124703624772_10100124709847302", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Michael C-C or Bb-Bb are not about keys, they're about ranges. For example, if you sing \"Happy Birthday\" in the key of G the lowest note is a D and the highest is the D an octave above, so we'd say it's D-D.", "timestamp": "1575230300"}, {"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124674967202?comment_id=10100124703624772&reply_comment_id=10100124750236362", "anchor": "fb-10100124703624772_10100124750236362", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Jeff Kaufman Thank you, I misunderstood that.", "timestamp": "1575249395"}, {"author": "Aloysius", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124674967202?comment_id=10100124719403152", "anchor": "fb-10100124719403152", "service": "fb", "text": "Depends on the quorum at the moment you start that song what if it\u2019s all women with high voices", "timestamp": "1575235122"}, {"author": "Ezra", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124674967202?comment_id=10100124737417052", "anchor": "fb-10100124737417052", "service": "fb", "text": "I think vocal range is dependent on vocal chord length, not hormones, which might simplify how you talk about it vis-a-vis gender. Or maybe not.", "timestamp": "1575243652"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124674967202?comment_id=10100124737417052&reply_comment_id=10100124764133512", "anchor": "fb-10100124737417052_10100124764133512", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Ezra I think it's more about T; when people go on T (or go through a T-initiated change at puberty) their voices deepen much faster than vocal cords could be lengthening", "timestamp": "1575255741"}, {"author": "Ezra", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124674967202?comment_id=10100124737417052&reply_comment_id=10100124766214342", "anchor": "fb-10100124737417052_10100124766214342", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Looks like testosterone helps shape vocal range in puberty by shaping your anatomy but that after that, it's not a big factor. https://www.mentalfloss.com/.../what-determines-what-your...", "timestamp": "1575256791"}, {"author": "Ezra", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/10100124674967202?comment_id=10100124737417052&reply_comment_id=10100124766284202", "anchor": "fb-10100124737417052_10100124766284202", "service": "fb", "text": "→ I'm sure there are better sources out there and way more informed people than I!", "timestamp": "1575256831"}]}