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Dr. Robert Carter Moffat’s Ammoniaphone: bottled Italian air for vocal health (1885)
'I would advise using the Ammoniaphone about one hour or one hour and-a-half after having partaken of food. Artificial Italian air reacts...
Tim Braithwaite


John Baptist Cuvillie on Using a ‘Tramblan Stop’ to Make the Organ More Like the Human Voice (1699)
‘3dly I removed the Voxhumane which was on the Chairorgan before, Now to the Great Organ, and for to adorne that Stop and to make itt...
Tim Braithwaite


Henry Chorley on French Singing and ‘Portly, Middle-Aged Gentlemen’ Singing in Falsetto (1844)
‘A gallery of French tenor singers would not be the least edifying chamber in the Pantheon of Art. Few traces would be there found, it is...
Tim Braithwaite


Emma Calvé on the ‘Fourth Voice’ Taught to her by Domenico Mustafa (1922)
‘During my sojourn in the Holy City, I often went to hear the choir of the Sistine Chapel, which was at that time under the direction of...
Tim Braithwaite
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