. Duality of voice; . rm the sameservice for the voice of the trachea. After making such positive assertions regardingthe replica as I did in my previous publication—nowmore than four years ago—I was more than surprisedthat no one should have deemed it worth his whileto look into the value of these assertions. If anyone had, he could not have helped but acknowledgetheir correctness. It is but necessary to utter anyvocal sound whatsoever, either vowel or consonant,and while doing so watch the vocal lip and the frae-num, to become at once convinced that their motionsare of precisely the same ord
. Duality of voice; . rm the sameservice for the voice of the trachea. After making such positive assertions regardingthe replica as I did in my previous publication—nowmore than four years ago—I was more than surprisedthat no one should have deemed it worth his whileto look into the value of these assertions. If anyone had, he could not have helped but acknowledgetheir correctness. It is but necessary to utter anyvocal sound whatsoever, either vowel or consonant,and while doing so watch the vocal lip and the frae-num, to become at once convinced that their motionsare of precisely the same order as those of the larynxand the vocal cords. So many have spent year after year upon the diffi- Voice of the CEsophagus 43 cult and fruitless M endeavor to study the motionsof the larynx; while here is an opportunity plainlybefore every ones eyes to study, without effort, themost interesting phenomena in voice must be obliged to seek for a thing high and lowbefore we deem it worthy of our ^^vLaA ^ij^-^. CsTjsL MS3S iA^fffP^ K a v ; m Wmm%W pllfil SJj&sj&jk. THE HUMAN VOICE WHAT is the voice—a spirit, or an expiratorycurrent of air set into vibration by purelyphysical agencies ? It does not seem to me to beeither, but something which is of the nature of both :our dual nature, embodied in the sounds of speech;our body and soul joining hands to produce the mira-cle of the voice. Regarding the materialistic viewquoted above, which is held by most of the investi-gators, who make the larynx their point dappui, Ithink that if there is anything in our compositionor emanating therefrom that is not produced bypurely physical agencies/ it is the voice. In my opinion there is nothing purer, more spiritual/ in the world than a beautiful you ever see a spirit ? Perhaps not. But youhave often heard one. You hear them daily,hourly, constantly; other spirits as well as yourown — the spirits represented by the voice ; thesoul incorporated in the sound
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