First Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics, Cancun [ Lay
Language Paper Index | Press Room ] Observation of Laryngeal
Movements for Throat Singing of two pairs of folds in the human
larynx Sakakibara*1, Tomoko Konishi, Emi Zuiki Murano*2, Hiroshi
Imagawa*2, Masanobu Kumada*3, Kazumasa Kondo*4, and Seiji
Niimi*5 *1 NTT Communication Science Laboratories, 3-1,
Morinosato Wakamiya, Atsugi-shi, 243-0198, Japan *2 The
University of Tokyo, Japan *3 National Rehabilitation Center for
the Disabled, Japan *4 Asian University, Japan *5 International
University of Health and Welfare, Japan Popular version of paper
2pMUa1 Presented Tuesday Afternoon, December 3, 2002 144th ASA
Meeting, Cancun, Mexico 1. Singing voices of the world In the
world, there are various styles of singing. These variations in
voices are mainly associated with variations in timbre. Such
diversity of singing voices might have arisen due to cultural
diversity such as climate, geography, language, racial physical
feature, religion, musical struc