 | Thomas L. Hankins, Robert J. Silverman - 1999 - 358 pages
...between two bits of smooth wood a little hollowed; so that when a gentle current of air from bellows was blown on the edge of the ribbon, it gave an agreeable...who heard it unseen, when it pronounced the words mama, papa, map, and pam; and had a most plaintive tone, when the lips were gradually closed. My other... | |
 | Jed Rasula, Steve McCaffery - 2001 - 644 pages
...between two bits of smooth wood a little hollowed; so that when a gentle current of air from bellows was blown on the edge of the ribbon, it gave an agreeable...who heard it unseen, when it pronounced the words mama, papa, map, and pam; and had a most plaintive tone, when the lips were gradually closed. My other... | |
 | Nicholas Wright Gillham - 2001 - 429 pages
...silk ribbon a quarter inch wide provided vocalization when a bellows passed an air current over it. "This head pronounced the p, b, m, and the vowel a,...who heard it unseen, when it pronounced the words mama, papa, map, and pam; and had a most plaintive tone, when the lips were gradually closed."5 Like... | |
 | Christopher Upham Murray Smith, Robert Arnott - 2005 - 452 pages
...between two bits of smooth wood a little hollowed; so that when a gentle current of air from bellows was blown on the edge of the ribbon, it gave an agreeable...who heard it unseen, when it pronounced the words 'mama', 'papa', 'map', and 'pam'; and had a most plaintive tone, when the lips were gradually closed.36... | |
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... both which could be quickly opened or closed by the pressure of the fingers, the vocality was given by a silk ribbon about an inch long and a quarter of an inch wide stretched between two bits of smooth wood a little hollowed; so that when a gentle... 
