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Credit: The voice in singing / tr. from the German of Emma Seiler. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![thus had an opportunity of knowing the delicacy of her musical ear and her ability to master the more difficult and abstract parts of the theory of music. I have pleasure in bearing this testimony to her WDrth, in the hope of securing for her the confidence and the encouragement of those who are interested in the scientific culture of music, and who know how desirable it is that an instructress in the art of singing should be possessed of scientific knowledge, a fine ear, and a cultivated taste. (Signed) Dr. H. Helmholtz, Prof, of Physiology, Member of the Acade- mies and Royal Societies of London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Gbttingen. Heidelberg, Aug. 5, 1866 [translated] Mad. E. Seiler has made for herself an honorable name in Germany, not only as a practical teacher of singing, but also by her valuable investigations in regard to the culture of the musical voice. By her own ana- tomical studies she has acquired a thorough knowledge of the vocal organs, and by means of the laryngoscope has advanced, in the way first trodden by Garcia, to the establishment of the conditions of the formation of the voice. We owe to her a more exact knowledge of the po- sition of the larynx, and of its parts in the production of the several registers of the human voice; and she appears especially to have brought to a final and satisfactory decision the much-vexed question respecting the forma-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21207574_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
