Usually, therefore, at the note do
in the female voice, and la si
in the male voice, the vocal ligaments alone act in forming the sound, and throughout the register are moved by large, loose, full vibrations (Totalschwingungen). But the instant the vocal ligaments are deprived of the assistance of the arytenoid cartilages, they relax and appear longer than at the last tone produced by that aid. But with every higher tone they appear again to be stretched shorter and more powerfully up to fa fa
, the natural transition of both the chest and falsetto registers, as well in the male as in the female. The larynx is perceptibly lower in all the tones of the chest register than in quiet breathing.