Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1914 — Machine Shows Voice Flaws. [ARTICLE]

Machine Shows Voice Flaws.

, It would be very fine if the embryo operatic singer next door could hear herself as others hear her while she hammers on the piano with both hands and lets out screech after screech at her daily singing practise. Probably if she did she would “have a heart,” and give the neighbors a rest occasionally. Donald McHardy, voice specialist of London, has invented a machine that will give one a fair and unbiased estimate of his own voice. The instrument, which is called the crltiphone, enables the singer or speaker to hear his voice precisely as it sounds to the audience, thereby enabling him to make corrections. —Cleveland Leader.