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I've had a lot of friends under go vocal surgeries (abuse from singing) and are ordered a similar thing. Before the proliferation of texting, you just carried around a white board and marker and wrote a bunch of shit down. A lot less long conversations. Try to keep it to essential type stuff.

Points for unexpected

I'm not even a huge rush fan...but that's a hell of an oversight imho

First off, kudos on your work.

I am not trans, nor have many or really any trans friends. I'm a professional vocalist and have been my entire professional life and had a few questions that I think could potentially overlap.

1. With the technique, is it something that could somehow be used to raise vocal pitch in regards to singing? I've found myself in the last 7-8 years lose about 1 step of pitch. I know that some of it can be down to age, was just curious if the procedure could ever be performed electively for something like that? A large amount of my colleagues have had multiple surgeries for nodes, polyps etc. I guess simple version of the question is 1. Can you raise sung vocal pitch? 2. Why does it lower with age/use for some (me), but others don't seem to diminish much well into their 70s (McCartney , Wonder etc)

2. Completely unrelated to the throat aspect of your practice, but figured maybe you'd come across something in your practice about tinnitus. Mine is absolutely caused over exposure over the years, I've started being much more proactive to protect my hearing now. Too little too late. Are there any rumblings about some type of 'cure' for tinnitus? Also, Ive had the ringing for so long I'm beginning to question whether people do hear true 'silence' if left alone in a quiet room?

Anyways, thanks for reading and thanks for helping those women find their voice. I can't even imagine what it must be to speak and not hear who you are.