Excerpt from Vocal Faults and Their Remedies There is no denying that hundreds of voices have been ruined by bad teaching. There is faulty training in every branch of education, but the results are rarely so tragic as in sing ing. The vocal apparatus is so delicate that it can be irretrievably injured by straining and bad habits. The efforts of every man, therefore, who strives to dismiss dangerous fallacies and make public the results of recent and original research should be welcomed, and it is because I believe this book will be to many as a light in darkness that I write this Preface. I should add, perhaps, that my belief is based upon my having had for over twenty years to investigate the various methods of vocal production, not as a teacher but as a critic, and, consequently, have had countless opportunities of watching the effects of the methods on public singers. I have been as a man on a hill who watches the strife, and sees the results of the struggles of the warriors in the vale of achievement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.