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Reimagining Historical Voices
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Tim Braithwaite
Morell Mackenzie on Those who Pretend to See with their Fingers (1886)
'It cannot be too clearly understood at the outset that the voice is generated solely in the larynx. It is necessary to insist on this...
Tim Braithwaite
Leonardo da Vinci on the Throat and the Muscles of the Leg (1510-11)
A. Begin the anatomy at the head and finish it at the soles of the feet. Put in all the exits that the veins make in the flesh and their...
Tim Braithwaite
A Letter From Saint-Évremond to a Monsieur Dery on ‘a mild operation’ to Retain his Youthful Voice
‘I would say to you, in an entirely insinuated way, that you must make yourself sweetened [adoucir] by a mild [legere] operation, which...
Tim Braithwaite
Jean-Antoine Berard on Larynx Height (1741)
‘Observation teaches us that the Larynx rises in its entirety with the high pitches, and that it descends with the low pitches...
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