SINGING MADE EASY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 58, 11 March 1915, Page 7

SINGING MADE EASY.

The people of .Melbourne are to be offered the chance to indulge in muscular relaxation and learn singing in the one occasion. Professor Marshall Hall, who recently returned from London to take up the position of Ormond Professor of Music and Director of the Univer-

sity Consorvatorium, claims that he i will revolutionise tlic teaching of singjing by the application of a new sysI tom.

"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 has discovered the method—he is Otto Fischer Soebell, who was originally an ♦Adelaide man, but who has been about .'{o years in London. Soebell is a specialist in voice production, and ho has discovered the secret that everybody | has been long looking for—a method of relaxing all the muscles of the vocal cords on every note practically at n moment's notice. That means that n singer can always have the linn, resonant note which it is such a pleasure to hear, instead of the strangling hen sort of sound. In future, tenors who have to sing in high C will not have to bo 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 here to join our stall'. He has been cabled for, and has replied, accepting the appointment."