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Voice and violin, 1898
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1off the platform after performing a concerto, spoke to their friends in quite a husky voice, very different from their usually clear speech. This is not simply due to the excitement and fatigue of the moment, but to the fact that their vocal organs had undergone a severe nervous strain whilst playing.
3It is perhaps more pronounced in the case of violin-playing than with any other instrument, as the tone and expression of the violin more nearly resemble those of the voice, and exert a more intense sympathetic action upon the nervous system of the vocal organs.
5Another curious fact also comes to my recollection. I know a lady, the wife of an accomplished violinist. She always had a luscious mezzo-soprano voice, and sang a few ballads with taste and expression. For many years she has played the accompaniments to her husband's brilliant violin pieces, but practised her singing very little indeed since she left school. Occasionally she might be heard humming snatches of the violin music, but that was all. Nevertheless, in the course of a few years she became a very fine singer; not only her style improved wonderfully, but her powers of execution and expression increased in a very remarkable manner. I can only explain this by admitting that all the time she was engaged in playing the accompaniments to the violin she was singing inwardly; and a very little practice of the scales
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