vibrations

• Like can only answer to like: anger can never play echo to love, for their vibrations are so far apart in attunement that the one cannot influence the other. —  Spirit and Music
• Experiments were made as to these vibrations, and it was proved that, after a little study, one could distinctly detect and recognise the crepitations in relation to each individual_. —  Palmistry for All
• An excellent view of the vocal bands and of the "ventricle" of the larynx, between them, is afforded When the vocal bands are in action their vibrations are accompanied by corresponding vibrations of the cartilages of the larynx--a fact of which any one may convince himself by laying his fingers on the upper part of the thyroid, especially when a low and powerful tone is produced. —  Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)
• The vocal bands are not wholly free throughout their length, like the strings of a violin, nor do they bear any great resemblance to the reed of such an instrument as the clarinet, but as in the latter the force causing the vibrations is a blast of air. —  Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)
• It follows that we have an instance of the conversion of one kind of vibrations, those of the air, into another kind, those of fluid, which latter furnish a sufficiently delicate stimulus or excitation of the fine hair-like extensions (_processes_) of the cells known as hair-cells_, about which the nerves in their final smallest branches wrap themselves Illustration: FIG. —  Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)

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