The Future of Education

‘Singing’ is to create the musical sound by human voices with the vibration of vocal folds and the composition of words or phases as lyrics, including rhythm in various tones. A ‘singer’ is a person who sings with or without musical instruments. Aside from people who are perfectly normal in terms of physiques, there are also those with potentials to be great singers who are not physically like others. For instance, singers who are blind. In Thailand, there are many blind singers nowadays who can perform and convey happiness to the audience. Many of them, however, still have difficulties in singing due to incorrect vocal technic and also inappropriate posture and gesture on stage. The researcher has more than ten years of experience in teaching Thai blind singers. One of them is a well-known singer, Pattanan Arunvijitsakun, who partly inspired the researcher to conduct this research. In regards to giving singing lessons to a blind individual, they require a greater amount of understanding and carefulness than an able bodied student. For example, when explaining or demonstrating a technique to disabled students, teachers are required to do more than explaining verbally. Unfortunately, in Thai culture, a man touching a woman is considered to be inappropriate. Due to this fact, it causes difficulties for Thai male teachers who teach Thai blind female students. This fact was the inspiration for this research in order to assist blind female singers. From previous research and experience in teaching blind singers, the researcher discovered four vocal problems commonly found in Thai blind female singers: constricted action, vocal folds abduction, difficulties of reaching high notes, and high larynx position. These dysfunctions can be eased through a sequence of vocalizations designed by the researcher. As for issues dealing with postures, the researcher found that the main causes were unaligned shoulders, constricted muscles on face and neck whilst singing. The researcher utilized a back support belt as a replacement for physical contact with his blind female students.

Keywords: Vocal’s Problems, Personality’s Problems, Thai Blind Singers.

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