My friend Ernesto Ramos wrote about audios and pirates, and I also wrote and gave my own version on this topic. Now, I am creating another version because I do not like it when people play with the feelings and good intentions of others—especially those who do not know much and allow themselves to be influenced by those who think they know something. It is a different matter when people believe they know something and end up being deceived.
Some enthusiasts ask me about audio-based education, and there are amateurs who create customized audios tailored to each individual’s preference, which I think is great. They produce audios for training purposes based on the voice tone, timbre, or tonal register of songbirds—all of which have the same meaning, as you well know.
If the birds in question are Spanish metallic Timbrado songbirds with diction or slow singing, they are trained according to their voice tone. On the other hand, if they are semi-metallic or semi-hollow, a different audio is created for their training, depending on their voice tone. How unfortunate all of this is! How people who do not know are deceived and defrauded!
First of all, these audio creators apparently did not know they also have the gift of clairvoyance, as they claim to know—before the birds even hatch—what type of specimens they will have and what their voice tone will be: metallic, semi-metallic, semi-hollow, or hollow. What a privilege! Yet again, those who do not know are being deceived.
Personally, I only know whether they have a metallic tone with diction or if they are semi-metallic when they begin to sing with clarity and definition. Until then, I know nothing. Once again, we see self-proclaimed know-it-alls and privileged individuals.
Another argument based on common sense and logic: In the music world, there are academies and singing teachers. You know that professional singers have different voice tones—just like Spanish Timbrado songbirds.
In music academies, the same teacher instructs singers regardless of whether they are tenors, basses, or baritones (men), or sopranos, contraltos, or mezzo-sopranos (women), regardless of whether their voice is higher or lower, as well as their different registers and vocal range. Once again, all are trained by the same singing teacher, and each one adapts that training to their own voice tone. It would be ridiculous and absurd to have a different singing teacher for each type of vocal register.
In my personal experience, in the 44 years I have dedicated to Spanish Timbrado singing, I have always done the same—whether with natural singing masters or with carefully selected electronic teachers. I started with cassette tapes, then CDs, and today, as we all know, MP3 or any other digital system. Of course, I have always trained all the specimens together, and time will tell—if God wills—which ones, due to their genetic crosses, are metallic with diction or semi-metallic. In this case, time truly places each one in its rightful place and determines what voice tone each one has. It even happens that siblings from the same parents and nest have different voice tones, diction, etc.
Let us not act as fortune tellers and know-it-alls like others do—and still brag about it. Some people make things so complicated! What is easy, simple, and natural, they turn into something unnecessarily complex. Man proposes, but God disposes.
The same thing happens in nature because God has created it that way. Everything under the sky, on earth, and in the waters. In this case, wild songbirds in the fields or jungles are all educated by their parents and the adult members of their species. Each of these wild birds has different voice tones—some more metallic, some more hollow—but they are all trained by the adults of their species in their environment. That is how simple and natural it is. The truth has only one path.
I respect everyone who holds a different opinion. Respect is fundamental in life. Without respect, we are on the wrong path.
A very warm greeting to all enthusiasts, and may God bless us all.