The hygiene of the vocal organs : a practical handbook for singers and speakers / by Morell Mackenzie.

  • Mackenzie, Morell, 1837-1892.
Date:
1886
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Credit: The hygiene of the vocal organs : a practical handbook for singers and speakers / by Morell Mackenzie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    three modes of inspiration include all the means at our disposal for taking breath, and it is important for all who use the voice to understand them. Clavi- cular breathing is seldom employed except in certain diseased conditions and during very violent exertion.^ Fig. 2.—The Vocal Instrument. /, larynx; trachea; />r, bronchi; Ig, lung ; d, diaphragm. To obtain its full power the hands must firmly hold some fixed object in order that the collar-bone may (through the shoulder-blade) have a fulcrum. When 1 The force with which the clavicle may be drawn up is shown by the fact related by Dr. Walshe {Dramatic Singing, London, i88i, p. 15, footnote), that Rubini actually broke his collar-bone in delivering a very high note.