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falsetto

In music, the tone-production of male singers resulting in notes above their normal pitch in the female (soprano or alto) register, and sounding like an unbroken voice. The notes are ‘falsely’, or artificially, produced by making the vocal cords vibrate at a length shorter than usual. Falsetto is the voice normally cultivated by male countertenors.



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In addition to these--and they were all on deck, chattering and piping in queer, almost elfish, falsetto voices--were the two white men, Captain Van Horn and his Danish mate, Borckman, making a total of seventy-nine souls.
There, screaming at them in a cracked falsetto and with skinny arms outstretched, stood a strange apparition of a man.
I do not, of course, speak of the conceit that displays itself in an elevated nose and a falsetto voice.
 
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