Mongolian Throat Singing watch!
oddstrument.uni.cc — The air passes through three resonant chambers before it is expelled: the larynx, the pharynx, and the mouth (in that order). These resonant chambers can be shaped to produce multiple harmonic frequencies at the same time which creates the incredibly strange and the surprisingly loud and long-distance traveling sound that is heard.
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- Fangsinmybeard, on 05/27/2008, -0/+3Fantastic! very similar sounds to Tibetan and Nepalese chanting monk songs.
- jcorn1, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1Interesting!
- monicazir, on 05/28/2008, -0/+2I've been working on humming and whistling at the same time. The hardest part is getting the two melodies to stop interfering with each other to avoid weird harmonics that sound like an alien spaceship. I've been trying ever since I saw a Mongolian on TV doing two pure melodies at the same time where if you closed your eyes you would swear it was two people doing it... anyway, and so here is another example of their incredible skill in mastering sound making...
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