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Show HEARING ONE'S OWN VOICE Ialoy, w-ho appears to have scientifically scien-tifically investigated the matter, assures as-sures us that not only does one not see hirself as others see him but that he does not hear himself as others oth-ers hear him. Some interesting experiments ex-periments were made by the French savant in this connection. In ordr to ascertain w-hether a man reallv knew the sound of his own voice. Laloy has been at some pains to determine the facts His experiments ex-periments show that if a person record rec-ord on a phonoeraph disk a few sentences sen-tences ppmounced by himself, together togeth-er with others recorded by friends, and causes the machine to repro- duce these. It most frequently hap pens that the man more easily rec ognlzes the voices of his friends than ' he does his own. It appears that the difference lies In the quality of the tone One hears his own voice not only through the air. as do his auditors, but across the solid parts between the organs of speech and those of hearing. The Bound thus produced has a different timbre from that conducted to the ear by the air below. If one entertain any doubt as to this, let him try the following experi- j ment: Take the end of a wooden rod between the teeth and pronounce a vowel continuously. ipt the other end le taken alternately between the teeth and released by another person who at the same tlm stops his ears. The latter will find that every time he seizes the rod in his teeth the sound will he stronper than when It reaches tho ear through the air above, and that It has a different Quality. The passage of sound ihrough a solid body augments ts Intensity and modifies mod-ifies its quality London fit-Bits |