Dear fellow puppeteers,

Dr. Mark Courey, renowned otolaryngologist at the UCSF Voice and Swallowing
Center on Post Street (Mount Zion), San Francisco, has asked me to help him
recruit a female puppeteer for an interesting voice project.

The volunteer will undergo flexible endoscopy through the nose (usually not
painful, nose can be sprayed, too) while reading THE RAINBOW PASSAGE, a
short text, using three different puppet voices. The second task will be to
produce a sustained /ah/ also during endoscopy and with the same three
puppet voices.

Procedures will be videotaped and recorded and then evaluated (DLS voice
analysis, analysis of vocal cord changes with regard to mobility, shape,
etc.). Along with the exam, the candidate will be able to see what is
happening in her larynx on a monitor (which is really interesting!).

I will help out Dr. Courey for the male puppet voices and have already
undergone flexible endoscopy in the past. Fascinating procedure.
Would be great if some of you could step in for the female voices.

As the results will be presented on a Californian conference in mid-March,
the recordings need to be scheduled before that, preferably on a Thursday or
Friday afternoon or based on your availability and Dr. Courey's.

If you are interested, please e-mail him at mcourey ohns dot ucsf dot edu or leave a
message at the Voice and Swallowing Center at (415) 885-77OO.
Thanks in advance.

Herbert Lange,
puppeteer and speech pathologist