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THE description of the Hammond organ by Sir James Barrett in NATURE of August 15 (p. 297) prompts the physiologist to ask why orchestration does not yet employ the method of the adjustable resonator so important in human speech and song. A very slight alteration in the calibre of the supra-laryngeal passages will make a profound difference in the quality of the voice, as every singer knows. In a few instruments of minor importance there can be found a series of resonators, but these are incapable of change. A good violin player can, by alteration of pressure and of bowing, make some adjustments in the resonance, but the range of such is small compared with the human voice.
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OSBORNE, W. Adjustable Resonators and Orchestration. Nature 138, 1059 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381059c0
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