# "Man's" voice Vs Man-made **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 7, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mans-voice-vs-man-made/288870 "2005-02-07T21:26:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mans-voice-vs-man-made/288870/21 "2005-02-10T06:44:02Z")
> [@jovan](#): > > Alexander Graham Bell built a speaking machine with his brother when he was a teen. I believe he used the actual vocal tract of a dead sheep, though. Wait a minute, Alexander Graham Bell’s brother was a dead sheep? ---
**Author:** ![Thinktank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Thinktank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinktank)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mans-voice-vs-man-made/288870/22 "2005-02-10T18:49:50Z")
How you came up with this Fish is beyond me, even humor has to have ordered thought in it:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Thinktank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Thinktank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinktank)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mans-voice-vs-man-made/288870/23 "2005-02-10T19:02:13Z")
> [@jovan](#): > > By the way, the link above gives a pretty good historical background on the aeolian harp but their project in itself is pretty different. [Here’s a site](http://www.harpmaker.net/windharp.htm) that has pictures of the actual instrument and even a short sample. Gees, you think harp music you think, beautiful dream-like music… this sample sounds like a mic that squealing with the dying resonation of band instruments in the background… make it STOP :smack: stop:smack:stop:smack: … I’m also reminded of my Mickey Mouse synthesizer when I was 5 or 6… it was before processors were available for such instruments so the batteries would actually run a fan inside it and the notes i suppose caught the air at different angles to make different notes happen… I recall using it more to air-condition my face than make music with it… 😛 I don’t think modern science would have to try very hard to top this harp thingy… it’s no wonder I haven’t heard of it before… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Thinktank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Thinktank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinktank)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mans-voice-vs-man-made/288870/24 "2005-02-14T23:56:22Z")
I’d be more than happy to let this thread go the way of the dinosaur, but I was hoping you might still back back with me Chronos; any progress on the operatic, physics professor… I did some reading a some days back about the previosly mentioned James Burke and didn’t see Opera in his list of accomplishments no physics, but still a fairly interesting fella… I just don’t think this one fits the bill… so I’m back hanging out with the questions marks again… 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Thinktank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Thinktank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinktank)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mans-voice-vs-man-made/288870/25 "2005-02-15T19:48:31Z")
:o \ **Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mans-voice-vs-man-made/288870/26 "2005-02-15T20:40:10Z") Don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten… But I’m trying to track down a colloquium speaker from a few years ago, here, and we have one every week. I may not be able to dig up the name, unfortunately. ---
**Author:** ![robcaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@robcaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robcaro)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mans-voice-vs-man-made/288870/27 "2005-02-15T21:13:42Z")
> [@AHarris](#): > > it may be better to consider vocal cords to be similar to a reed on a clarinet or saxaphone. I think it would be better to compare to the reeds on an Oboe or Basson because those have double reeds which more closely resemble the vocal cords. ---
**Author:** ![robcaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@robcaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robcaro)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mans-voice-vs-man-made/288870/28 "2005-02-15T21:17:09Z")
Should have been “Bassoon”. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Thinktank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Thinktank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinktank)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mans-voice-vs-man-made/288870/29 "2005-02-16T05:17:59Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten… But I’m trying to track down a colloquium speaker from a few years ago, here, and we have one every week. I may not be able to dig up the name, unfortunately. ☹ …well, I do appreciate your help regardless of the outcome, sorry for pushing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mans-voice-vs-man-made/288870.md?page=1)