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yodel
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yodel or yodle (both: yō`dəl), type of wordless singing, joyous in nature, usually associated with the Swiss. It is, in fact, practiced throughout the Alps and, as an importation, in the mountains of Kentucky. It is characterized by sudden shifts from the natural singing voice to falsetto falsetto (fôlsĕt`tō) [Ital.
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yodel
an effect produced in singing by an abrupt change of register from the chest voice to falsetto, esp in popular folk songs of the Swiss Alps


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Yodelers say the result is a relaxing, and musical, experience.
After all, how many nannies can fashion haute couture summer wear from tattered drapes, turn a clan of yodelers into Austria's version of the Partridge Family, and deliver her employer and wards from the grasp of the Third Reich?
Those requirements alone will eliminate the yodelers, screamers and itchy fat ladies.
 
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