THROAT STIFFNESS What is the most frequent obstacle to good singing, the difficulty with which pupil and teacher most contend?
Throat stiffness.

What more than anything else mars the singing of those we hear in drawing-rooms, churches, and the concert room?
Throat stiffness.
This is the vice that prevents true intonation, robs the voice of its expressiveness, limits its range, lessens its flexibility, diminishes its volume, and makes true resonance impossible.
This great interferer not only lessens the beauty of any voice, but directly affects the organ itself.

The muscles of the larynx are small and delicate, and the adjustments they make in singing are exceedingly fine.

When, however, the voice user stiffens his throat, these delicate muscles in their spontaneous effort to make the proper adjustments are compelled to contract with more than their normal strength.

Every increase in throat stiffness demands a corresponding increase in muscle effort, an overexertion that persisted in must result in injury to the organ itself.