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Pow · Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 9:52 am Post subject: RIP - Gary Owens

Gary Owens. All the way from beautiful downtown Burbank.

Bud Brewster · Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 4:20 pm Post subject:

A little-known fact about Gary Owens is that he held his right hand this way because he did not have a left ear. He cut it off and gave it a woman he loved.

No, wait . . . that was Van Gogh. Sorry.
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orzel-w · Galactic Ambassador Joined: 19 Sep 2014 Posts: 1865

That's a technique to hear your own voice in order to modulate it properly (as if you didn't know that already). It works for singing, too, to make sure you're on key. I think it was from Gary Owens that I picked up on it.
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Bud Brewster · Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 10:27 pm Post subject:

Right. And that's why singers wear headphones during recording sessions -- because when you hear your own voice under normal circumstances, it doesn't sound the way it does to everybody around you.

Remember what you said the first time you heard a recording of your own voice?

"Do I really sound like that?" Shocked

This guy must have hated the way he sounded! "If thine ear offend thee, cut it off!" (Or words to that effect . . . )

* I mentioned the wrong artist earlier, but I fixed it. Wink

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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