It was 1977, as far as I remember, when Reinhard Mey entered the stage in the Salzburg Mozarteum, which was sold out to the last seat. The lights in the auditorium were already extinguished, all eyes in tense silence on the singer, who was just picking up his guitar. The contrast of the strong spotlight cone made the background appear almost black. [...]
Again and again, some very peculiar studies are published about the polarity between male and female voices. Sometimes it is probably just individual aspects that appeal to the audience that are picked out and misrepresented. For example, most newspaper marginal notes with headlines such as "deep male voices are sexy" or "high female voices are love killers" are simply poorly researched or well invented. Whether men like shrill women's sounds even [...]
