Bubblecar said:
…has been my lot since adolescence, when it comes to singing.
I’m a natural and quite rich bass-baritone, but I’d much rather be a sweet tenor.
My tenor is weak and quickly jumps into a countertenor which almost works but is not the sound I seek.
Anyone else here find their singing usually displeases them?
I have the exact same singing range. I call it anti-alto, in that I can sing a nice baritone and soprano, losing almost an octave in between.
My wife, by contrast, is an alto with an extension into the tenor range (she sings tenor in a choir), so plays all her songs on piano in the alto range, meaning that I can never sing along with her music. That … is annoying.
As for how I rate the quality of my voice, as I get older and sing less it gets worse. A lot worse. I generally only get to sing in church, and I don’t go to church. I would need to sing a lot more for it to get passable again.