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THE above letter very properly directs attention to the excellent work of Prof. Miller. It is worth while to study Fig. 130 of his book, reproduced below. For the tuning-fork there is only one tone, namely, the fundamental. For the other instruments the fundamental appears clearly, but for the voice the fundamental is lacking. Thus the strongest tone in a vowel, the voice tone, does not appear in the plot. This is in agreement with the work of Hermann and myself. As explained in NATURE of January 13 and 20, this arises from the fact that the voice tone consists of a series of puffs.
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SCRIPTURE, E. [Letters to Editor]. Nature 107, 12 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107012d0
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