Fig. [456].—"You can't, either." "I can, too."
Fig. [457].—"Oh! Oh! We are both at the foot of the class."
Make the Tenor Sing
Fig. [458].—D O.
I wonder if you ever attended a concert where the tenor had difficulty in reaching his high notes, where he fairly seemed to rise up on his toes in his efforts to attain the notes as his voice ran up the scale, and everyone in the audience sympathized to such an extent that they, too, felt like rising and stretching up their heads in search of the difficult note. Such a tenor is shown at [Fig. 459]. Trace him on bias cloth and pull the cloth out sidewise ([Fig. 458]); then, beginning with the lower note, do, slowly sing the scale as you leisurely pull the cloth upward and downward at the same time. When you come to sol the face should be like [Fig. 459], and as you continue singing and stretching the cloth, the tenor should resemble [Fig. 460] when you reach your highest do. Though not a very high note it is the best he can do, and he looks very comical while his face is changing, his eyes and mouth opening wider and wider and his hair rising up straight on the top of his head.
