Originally Posted By: twosleepy
Okay, if we're gonna get picky...

Human males weren't aren't castrated to "make them sing". They already sang sing. The castration was is to make them sing, from then on, in their boyish soprano/alto tessitura. The talent had has to be there to begin with, as no amount of castration will turn a croaker into a crooner! ;0)

Is was it as it is?
I know young male singers of talent were/are castrated to keep their voice in their boyish soprano/alto tessitura. -sing...........
The contradictionality 'capon'__ 'human' was more on my mind than the technically correct part. I used the past tense to take a big step past the unpleasant forms of mutilation.