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July 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By Andrew Evans | DigitalNomad
Julie Andrews had it all wrong.
In the 1965 film musical The Sound of Music, her character Maria sings how The Lonely Goatherd yodeled and how it sounded lusty and clear from the goatherds throat.
Clearly neither she nor Oscar Hammerstein II knew anything about actual yodeling.
With yodeling your voice jumps from deep in your chest up to a high-pitched falsetto in your head, explained Swiss yodeler Amad Perrig. If you try to sing it in your throat, it wont work.
Amad is not a professional yodeler per se, but he is Swiss and grew up as a cowherd in the Alps near the mountain town of Zermatt and hes been yodeling longer than The Sound of Music has been in existence.
He calls it singing but he normally means yodeling.
As a boy, I sang all the time. We didnt have TV. On Sunday afternoons, all of us in the family would gather round the kitchen table and just sing and sing.
Amad also grew up milking cows every morning. He yodeled in the hills with his cows, as its been done in Switzerland for at least a thousand years (even the Romans remarked on Swiss yodeling).
Cow- and goatherds used yodeling as a way to call across from one mountain to another. It was a rudimentary (albeit beautiful) way to communicate. Certain sounds and notes actually meant words, so in a way, yodeling began as a kind of melodic language of the mountains.
Although you couldnt see a fellow cowherd across the valley, you could hear him, and you would yodel back. Like bird calls, sending out feelers to see whos out there and listening to the responding calls that come back.
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Still, Im happy that the first yodeling I heard in Switzerland was 100% authentic. This was not some choir greeting me on cue as I pulled into a railroad station, nor was it some Swiss Folklore Show played out in front a group of Japanese tourists as they fondled their fondue.
No, my first yodeling was improvised in the Alps of Zermatt by a true-blue Swiss cowherd. Nowadays he spends his winters in Arizona on the golf course, but even in the American Southwest, he says he lets out a very special yodel every time he hits a birdie.
The other golfers may think him a little odd, but when they hear that certain yodel, they know exactly what it means: That crazy Swiss guy just hit a birdie! Sending non-verbal messages across the green with a bit of vocal flourish, just like its been done in the Alps for centuries.
Read the full article at: nationalgeographic.com
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