I have not done any preaching while we have been here, but I have had small parts in worship leading. Since the church has a lot of old people, and since the one good quality of my voice is that it is usually loud and clear when I speak in public, I have had more people than usual tell me they like listening to me speak. (Apparently when older people have a choice between a monotone voice they can hear and a voice with vocal variety that they can’t hear, they prefer the monotone.)
Last Sunday, a few minutes after I briefly spoke during the service, the guy sitting in front of me turned around and said I had a nice voice. He is an older guy, and I assumed he was making the same type of comment others had made to me.
At lunch that day, Amy (who had heard the comment) brought it up and said I should enjoy it because I will probably never hear it again. I told her that a lot of people have said they enjoy my speaking voice. She said: he wasn’t talking about your speaking voice, he was talking about your singing voice.
Anyone who has ever heard me sing (or heard my dad sing) would understand why I have a hard time believing he could possibly have been talking about my singing voice. When the other intern here with me asked a couple weeks ago whether I was tone deaf and I told her that I did not know what that means, she said “if you don’t know what that means then you probably are.”
The most curious thing about all of this is that this was not just some musically illiterate guy like me; he is a guy in his 60s who has played in a band his whole life and now leads one of the praise bands at the church.
So, there you have it: Amy is convinced that a guy who she thinks has a lot of musical talent complimented me on my singing voice.
Maybe instead of this whole preaching thing I need to find a producer and cut an album.
P.S. The reason I believe Gene was talking about Josh's singing voice is because he invited both of us to sing with the praise band in August; thank goodness we'll be on our way home by then. I also have to wonder if Gene was actually hearing some other guy singing near us and assumed it was Josh as that would explain a lot.
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I do not know about that Amy, there is a lot to be said for a clear voice with a littel power behind it!
I once witnessed someone at Silver Spring CRC telling dad he had a wonderful singing voice and they thought he should sing a duet with Brian (or possibly a solo). This woman was the church organist and had sung in a professional choir. I hate to admit I burst out laughing.
Clearly there are many people in this world who are not very discriminating.
I, on the other hand, have a beautiful voice like mom!
I have to say there is something about a clear powerful voice, yet when it's clearly a half step off key this can pose a problem.
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