Show YOURSELF ag and YOUR BODY THE TALKING MACHINE wa VOWELS AR 10 te C fan Is a talking machine at least he talks more than any other animal even if he sing better than a nightingale abut how does he do it father oh he Is a wind instrument like an organ pipe he uses his air pump to blow wind through a bole between two reeds in his throat oh father 1 its true two reeds or strings are stretched from front to back in the wind pipe as it passes through adams apple that Is the lump you feel in your neck beneath your chin if you take an old air tube after a man has gone and left it and blow wind through it it makes a fine noise or if I 1 take this instrument and look down a mans throat through it I 1 can watch his voice strings moving as he aings see picture when a person gets diphtheria this narrow part of the wind tube gets filled up and several times I 1 have had to make a bole lower down in the pipe and put in a tube or the person would have suffocated then be talk at all because the wind escaped below the strings the lungs are our bellows and our throat and chest and belly mua cles all help us to blow harder or cotter as we like it the strings atay the same length the harder we blow the higher the pitch of the sound you cant make any noises without you blow hard enough to hold up the weight of a column of water ten inches in height and to make a very high note you must blow four times as hard most people can only make 10 notes and the limit Is 24 but how do you make the different notes that Is the marvelous thing about these reeds we can make them horter or longer at but what does that do look at this fiddle now twang this long string and listen that Is the same note as this one on the piano isn t it yes well that Is called 0 it means that the wire I 1 am bitting in the piano Is making as many up and down movements or waves in a sec ond as the string which you are twanging it happens to be in a second now twang it again as I 1 shorten it listen it Is the same note again as this one I 1 am striking eight notes higher up on the piano yes father well that Is the octave and means that the wire and string are now each making waves a second or just take as many as before that Is all there Is to it isn t it easy but the really amazing thing Is the way in which we can shorten and lengthen the strings so cleverly and at the same time regulate the wind pressure so accurately as to always sing the right note how do we do it father well ve cant unless we practice and then e cant always just as I 1 can t play the fiddle or piano like krehsler Kr elsler and or sing like caruso but when they were born they coulden couldn t play better than I 1 could all that any one of us four could pro duce then was a yell A mans throat Is bigger than a comans womans and therefore his cords are longer and larger to begin with his are a little over half an inch ions hers are a little under so his voice la deeper that Is why vilfreds Wil freds voice Is so horrible it Is cracking it only means alg throat Is very quickly grow ing larger just at present the range of the voice Is exactly hie that of a string it depends on its length now with my instrument we will look down the throat it shows how the machine acts the big ring Is the case around the machine down the throat and the tip in front Is the top of the lid that closes when we swallow and shoots our food over in stead of into our talking and breath ing machine the same air Is used to 1 breathe and to talk there Is a beau i alful little sack above the cords right around it Is full of and greasers the flap above it Is called the false cord the thing like a swastika or boomerang Is made of hard gristle it Is balanced on a ring of bone below the apple bone or thyroid and it can turn like a salva i the whole bon and swastika er can also be tilted back to stretch the voice strings by means of these the strings can also be pulled wide apart or pulled alosa together so that lots of air can come in and out as when we run hard and get short of wind or ft hen we want to make low notes there Is however also an other marvelous little arrangement to shorten the amount of the voice cord used it Is done by little muscle alls inside the flap from the cord to the side of the bone and that stops it exactly as we move our fingers up and down a banjo or fiddle string to alter the note we need it Is very hard to keep fhe same note accurately getting louder and louder called crescendo by singers because it means that iou must blow harder and harder and harder and at exactly the same time gradually slack en and slacken and slacken the strings the real marvel Is not that so many cannot sang well but that so many can all the same good are very rare and have to be paid huge sums of money though the and tightness of the width and length string alter the notes really the sounding box Is the mouth and throat aboe and the cavity of the nose your singing master tries to teach you to use those sounders rightly so that you may sing sweetly the vowel sounds are made by wind that Is not interrupted by anything see picture only the shape of the mouth la altered but the consonants are made by stopping the air with the lips teeth and tongue thus a wake hisses by pressing its tongue against the front of the roof of its mouth and blowing clr between them la the same only you allow the air to pass each side of the tongue K ia the tip of the tongue or edge of HP or point of soft palate blowing to and fro in the wind th Is made by placing the tongue against the teeth and blowing etc that is all run away and when you are halt a mile off try singing through first the back of your throat and then in the front of bour mouth and then in your nose then with bour tongue against the root of the mortn or in your cheel scoott by tb Byn dlott anc |