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free vibration

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noun

  1. the vibration of a structure that occurs at its natural frequency, as opposed to a forced vibration

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Their function has occasioned much speculation, but whatever modification of tone they may be supposed to produce, they no doubt protect the true vocal bands and permit their free vibration.

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

To direct consciousness to the vocal cords is to cramp them and prevent that free vibration and that perfect relaxation of the throat without which pure tone and true pitch are impossible.

From Resonance in Singing and Speaking by Thomas Fillebrown

Tones sung in the thick or chest-register are produced by the full, free vibration of the vocal bands in their entire length, breadth and thickness.

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

Perhaps another reason may be named in the wood being so ripe and dry as to permit free vibration.

From Violins and Violin Makers Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, their Followers and Imitators, to the present time. With Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin. by J. H. (Joseph Henry) Pearce

The so-called "nasal twang" that sounds so unpleasant is a mouth tone prevented from free vibration through the nose.

From Certain Success by Norval A. Hawkins

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