My voice is lower?
 

My upper range has all but vanished. Not that i ever had much of one... I don't know when it happened, but it has to have been recently... I can't hit that high note at all. Is it because I lost weight? I think I can go lower than I used to too.

In the car, I mostly have to sing an octave lower to stay in key at this point. sometimes 2.

Something about testosterone being bound up in fat, probably related. See if your junk gets bigger.

IT DID!





but i think that's an optical illusion. I'm also hairier.... which makes sense, I guess.... same number of hairs crowded onto a smaller surface area....

I heard or read (long ago) that a man's voice loses it's upper end as he ages and that a woman's voice expands into the lower ranges as she ages. So that men's ranges shrink and women's ranges expand. However I can't find anything on the net to back that up.

LOL, my husband gains an inch when he loses weight. Its all in how its measured ;)

well, i can definitely see more of it...



eta:
but this is about my voice....not my junk.

Are you smoking, Jim? That'll definitely affect your voice.

He may have quit cigarettes, but he hasn't stopped
smoking

oh hell no.

it's almost like my voice is weaker... like when i try to go higher, my throat hurts and my volume falls off.

I have no actual scientific basis for this, but it does seem to me that losing that much weight could do it. It's like, higher ranges require your larynx muscles to be squeezed tighter, right? And with the fat all crammed in there, it's like your larynx was wrapped in a tight donut, helping it stay squeezed. Now that the donut is gone, you've got room to open the muscles wider, but it also turns out your muscles aren't strong enough to maintain the high pressure on their own. In a capella groups, the deepest baritones are always skinny tall guys.

that is what I was thinking. like my neck was all crammed full of fat... just like you said. and the part about the skinny guy with the deep voice...

I think we've nailed it.

love that guy... and that song.

Yer Bollz Dropped and You FINALLY got yer Big Boy Voice !!!

Age and smoking, man. I've got a full octave less than I had at 17. I used to have a pretty good falsetto. No more.

Losing weight will definitely change your vocal range and timbre. So will smoking and alcohol intake.

Posture will also change the way your voice sounds, particularly for singing. Not so much slouching (although of course that affects breathing and phrasing) but how you hold your head.

If your head is sort of hanging lower, your vocal chords do in fact sort of get fatter which would make your voice lower. Alternatively, if you're holding your head high and upwards, it stretches them out so you have a potentially higher range (or just sound crappy).

Have you thought that maybe your state of mind could be something to do with it Jim? Litterally not holding your head as high as you maybe used to do just right at the moment?

Also make sure you're getting enough air to support your voice. The new skinnier you might not be taking as big breaths.

*snort* :lol:

I feel healthy, and my head is up. same posture as always.... seated in the car...

hmmm... I think my voice is back to normal now. that was weird. I wonder what the hell.

Did your junk get smaller again?

IF No --> then don't worry.
IF Yes --> bummer dude.

Point of order here:
please stop referring to LJ's treasure as junk

my junk and my and my treasures remain embiggened. I feel very cromulent about that too.

now i can rock out with my.... well... nevermind.

Please tell me embiggened has nothing to do with Christopher Biggins?!

I'm very afraid of the direction this thread is taking.

fixed it for you.

thanks, shel.... :bolt: