Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1895 — How to Acquire a Bass Voice. [ARTICLE]

How to Acquire a Bass Voice.

Ferrari, the celebrated composer, relates the following anecdote in his Memoirs. On a cold December night a man in a little village in the Tyrol opened the window and stood in front of it, with hardly any clothing on his back. “Peter !” shouted a neighbor, who was passing, “what are you doing there?” , “I am catching a cold.” “What for?” “So I can sing bass to-morrow at church.’’