The Science
The science behind the VoicePipe
Semi-occluded vocal tract exercises are among the most studied techniques in voice science. The VoicePipe exists because the person who made it spends his working life inside that literature.
What actually happens
Sing into a narrow opening and the air cannot leave as fast as you produce it. Pressure builds above the vocal folds. That back pressure does two things: it helps the folds come together without being squeezed together, and it reduces how hard they strike each other on every cycle.
The result is that you can make sound with less effort. That is why semi-occluded work is used for warming up, for building stamina, and for settling a voice down after heavy use — and why it turns up in voice clinics, not only in practice rooms.
Who made it
Daniel Zangger Borch holds a Ph.D. in Music Performance. His doctoral thesis, Singing in popular music genres — artistic, physiological and pedagogical aspects, was supervised by Professor Emeritus Johan Sundberg, one of the most cited voice scientists in the world.
His research examines singing in rock, pop and soul, including vocal distortion. The VoicePipe came out of that research, not out of a product brief.
Borch DZ, Sundberg J. Some phonatory and resonatory characteristics of the rock, pop, soul, and Swedish dance band styles of singing. Journal of Voice. 2011;25(5):532–537.
What we claim, and what we don’t
Semi-occluded work works. That is established, and it is not our finding. What we claim for the VoicePipe is narrower: it delivers a stable, specified resistance, so the exercise you did last week is the exercise you can do again today. A drinking straw gives you whatever resistance its diameter happens to give.
We do not claim it will make you sing better in seconds, and we do not claim it does something no other tool can do. If your voice hurts, see a laryngologist. No tube replaces a diagnosis.
The rest of the method
- Vocal Workout of the Day — a new vocal workout every day, built on the same research. Buy The Zangger VoicePipe and get 3 months of Vocal WOD free. vocalworkoutoftheday.com
- The books — Stora Sångguiden, published in English as Ultimate Vocal Voyage, and the exercise book Vocal Workout of the Day. zanggervoice.com
Watch
Thirteen short films on how and when to use the VoicePipe — and on why semi-occluded exercises are not automatically enough on their own. youtube.com/@ZanggerVoicePipe
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Vocal Workout of the Day
The tool is half of it. Doing it every day is the other half.
A new vocal workout every single day, built on the same voice science as the pipe. The first 21 days are free and no card is needed.