SINGING MADE EASY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2404, 9 March 1915, Page 9

SINGING MADE EASY

CHANCE FOR MELBOURNIANB. The people of Melbourne are to be offered the chance to indulge in muscular relaxation and learn singing in the one operation. Professor Marshall Hall, who recently returned from London to take up the position of Ormond Professor of Music and Director of the University Conservatorium,' clajms that he will revolutionise the teaching of singing by. the application of a new system. "As regards the application of this system to the training of the voice," says Professor Marshall Hall, "there is only one man in the world who ha 6 discovered the method—he, is Otto Fischer Soebell, who was originally an Adelaide man, but who has been about 30 years in London. Soebell is a specialist in voice production, and he has discovered the secret that everybody ha 6 been looking for —a method of relaxing all the muscles of the vocal cords on every note practically at a moment's notice. That means that a singer oaa always have the firm, resonant noto which it is such a pleasure to hear, instead of the strangling hen sort of sound. In future, tenors who have to si«; in high C will not have to be carried off in an ambulance after the effort —they will take the note with perfect ease and nonchalance. This is certainly the most remarkable discovery of our time. It absolutely does away with registers. Soebell is coming out hero to join our staff. Ho has been cabled for, and has replied, accepting the appointment."