vocal bands

Voice mutation is not one continuous period of growth of vocal bands and laryngeal cartilages.

From The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs by Francis E. Howard

The reason for the ease with which children sing the high head-tones is found in the structure of the vocal bands.

From The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs by Francis E. Howard

With girls as with boys, the change is accompanied with periods of great relaxation of the vocal bands, and during these periods the singing tone is either very light, or very loud.

From The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs by Francis E. Howard

We must then be particularly careful with infant classes—for the vocal bands of children prior to six years of age are very, very weak.

From The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs by Francis E. Howard

At the same time the throat must be open, and the muscles surrounding the resonance cavities relaxed to allow free movement of the sound-waves set up at the vocal bands.

From The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs by Francis E. Howard