I am not reading all these posts yet, but wanted to express my two cents’ worth anyway. If an issur is on a specific thing, i.e. INSTRUMENTAL non-natural LIVE music made via a horn, or piano, or guitar, etc. then it would seem to me that there is no such issur on the human voice. Are we not permitted to listen to birds singing, either during sefirah? I have ehard flutes played that sounded like singing birds, so if a human voice can sound like a musical instrument does that make the natural human voice assur at this time? What is the exact nature of the issur according to those who paskened it to be assur, the origin of the musical sound or the hanoaah we get from hearing it? If the issur is solely on the live musical instrument and not on one’s voice, then “a capella” singing is not and should not be thought to be assur. If it is the ENJOYMENT of the sound and not its origin that is the issue, then ANY pleasant and enjoyable sound should be assur, if you want to get really technical about it. How far are we suppsoed to take this?
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