SOME GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS THE NATURAL VOICE Pupils are constantly urged to sing and speak naturally, because the "natural" tone is correct.

This is exceedingly indefinite.

It is natural for a child to imitate the first sound it hears, whether it be correct or incorrect.

In either case the child imitates it, and for that child it becomes the natural tone.

The child reared in the wilderness, beyond the hearing of a human voice, will imitate the notes of the whip-poor-will, the chatter of the monkey, and the hoot of the owl, and for him they are natural tones.
To be natural is the hardest lesson to learn and it is only the result of imitation or prolonged discipline.