fausset

Les hommes même en peuvent approcher en chantant le fausset; mais de toutes ces voix aiguës, je ne crains point de dire, malgré la prévention des Italiens, qu'il n'y en a nulle d'espece comparable à celle des femmes, ni pour l'étendue, ni pour la beauté du timbre; la voix des enfans a peu de consistance, & n'a point de bas; celle des eunuques n'est supportable non plus que dans le haut; & pour le fausset, c'est le plus désagréable de tous les timbres de la voix humaine.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: champion of among other things, mezzos! Celeste Winant 2008

At 9:15 p.m. on the evening of June 5, 1944, a diminutive English WAAF named Annette Cormeau turned on the radio set in her bedroom in a farmhouse in the village of Castelnausur-l’Avignon in Gascony in southern France and heard, through the crackle of static, the BBC announcer say, “Il a un voix fausset” “He has a falsetto voice”.

Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010

At 9:15 p.m. on the evening of June 5, 1944, a diminutive English WAAF named Annette Cormeau turned on the radio set in her bedroom in a farmhouse in the village of Castelnausur-l’Avignon in Gascony in southern France and heard, through the crackle of static, the BBC announcer say, “Il a un voix fausset” “He has a falsetto voice”.

Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010

At 9:15 p.m. on the evening of June 5, 1944, a diminutive English WAAF named Annette Cormeau turned on the radio set in her bedroom in a farmhouse in the village of Castelnausur-l’Avignon in Gascony in southern France and heard, through the crackle of static, the BBC announcer say, “Il a un voix fausset” “He has a falsetto voice”.

Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010

At 9:15 p.m. on the evening of June 5, 1944, a diminutive English WAAF named Annette Cormeau turned on the radio set in her bedroom in a farmhouse in the village of Castelnausur-l’Avignon in Gascony in southern France and heard, through the crackle of static, the BBC announcer say, “Il a un voix fausset” “He has a falsetto voice”.

Shadow Knights Gary Kamiya 2010