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Re: Effect of Oral Cavity Size on Sound

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2023-06-10 19:37

graham wrote:

> In other words, Paul, you are saying that a player’s lips and
> teeth make the difference we hear. Pillinger also says that
> where a player deliberately changes their oral cavity and hears
> a difference, it can only be consequential differences arising
> in lip pressure (etc) which is then conflated with the change
> in oral cavity.

I suspect that, while oral cavity size may not have an effect, the level of tension and flexibility in the tissues inside the mouth can. Trying to pull the muscles we can electively control to force more opening can create rigidity in the those soft tissue areas and, I think, actually interfere with internal resonance. Singers who tighten their cheeks and soft palate as they sing lose ring and focus in their vowels. I think the same thing happens to players of wind instruments. Tension caused by trying to produce an "open throat" deadens the sound that eventually comes out of the instrument.

Karl

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