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2. No less important is the nose as a condition of beautiful speech
and song. Jean de Reszke, the greatest tenor and vocal teacher of our
time, goes so far as to say that "la grande question du chant devient
une question du nez." Unless the stream of tone, when we speak or
sing, goes through the nose it lacks beauty and resonance; yet with
consistent stupidity we have bestowed the word "nasal" on the sounds
produced when the nose is _not_ used as a resonator or "sounding
board!" To fully comprehend the important musico-philological function
of the nose in giving beauty and variety to tones, read Chapter III of
Prof. G. H. Meyer's "The Organs of Speech."