SLU professor made special mask for singers and speakers

scheduled tribe. LUIS (KMOV.com) – As the saying goes, the show must go on. But at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the lighting of stages around the world went dark and it inspired Stephanie Tenniel, assistant music professor at St. Louis University, to get creative.

“I can’t take away the pandemic, I can’t take the mask away, but I can do something,” Tenille said.

At her kitchen table, she began drawing up a design for the mask. What he created was VocalEase, an acoustically transparent mask that helps eliminate the muffle.

“These masks enable you to really show your voice and express your desire,” said Celine Totri, a junior music major.

Tenille created the masks with his students in mind, but they are now being used nationwide by everything from Broadway auditions to professional speakers.

In addition to being invented in St. Louis, it is also being produced by The Collective Thread in St. Louis – a non-profit sewing affiliate that empowers vulnerable women by teaching them new skills and providing them with a living wage job – and Packaged in JSI, a local shelter workshop. With each mask sold, a portion of the proceeds supports VocalEase’s exclusive charitable partner, Sing for Hope – a national nonprofit that exposes underserved communities around the world to the healing power of art and music Is.

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