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There was a solemn silence, during which nothing was heard but a convulsive working about the chest and glottis of the foreman, who at length said: "We we we we have." "Is the prisoner at the bar guilty or not guilty?" Here the internal but obstructed machinery of the chest and throat set to work again, and at last the foreman was able to get out "Guilty " Mrs.
But when sound is being produced, the glottis is almost completely closed by the cords. The false cords do not produce sound, but they aid in the closing of the glottis. *How the Voice is Produced.*—The voice is produced through the vibrations of the vocal cords.
But the reflex function exists as a continuous muscular action, as a power presiding over organs not actually in a state of motion, preserving in some, as the glottis, an open, in others, as the sphincters, a closed form, and in the limbs a due degree of equilibrium or balanced muscular action a function not, I think, hitherto recognized by physiologists.
How did this critic know that the singer had pinched her glottis? He had no opportunity of examining her throat with the laryngoscope, nor of observing her throat action in any other way. In fact, the critic was seated probably seventy-five feet from the artist at the time the tones in question were sung.
The glottis is sometimes closed throughout the scale, and in one case it was open throughout. This writer also held that "Boys who sing alto always use the chest register." He was of opinion that "The quality of the voice generally, but not always, indicates which mechanism is being used."
The opening of this tube is the Glottis, and the little trap-door which closes it when one swallows, is the Epiglottis. You must excuse my attempting to explain the meanings of all these names; it would take me too long to do so. After all, the mere names are nothing. If I have succeeded in making you understand how all the different parts act, you may call them what you like. Here we will rest.
It was arranged that the Spanish lady should take care always to be ill; and that the only man to whom the lovers would confide their secret should be the court physician, who was much attached to the queen. By chance this physician had in his glottis, chords exactly similar to those of Gauttier, so that by a freak of nature they had the same voice, which much astonished the queen.
Obviously, this closure of the glottis cannot be effected by the contraction of the glottis-closing muscles, strictly speaking, for these muscles are too small and weak to withstand the powerful air pressure exerted against the vocal cords. The point of resistance is located just above the vocal cords.
Saniel, behind the chair, had taken the knife in his right hand, while he pressed the left heavily on Caffies forehead, and with a powerful stroke, as quick as lightning, he cut the larynx under the glottis, as well as the two carotid arteries, with the jugular veins. From this terrible wound sprang a large jet of blood, which, crossing the room, struck against the door.
As a number of prominent teachers base their entire methods on this theory, it is worthy of careful attention. The "breath-band" theory may be stated as follows: "When the lungs are filled by a deep inspiration and the breath is held, the glottis is of necessity closed so tightly that no air can escape.
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