For thirty years there has seemed to me no difference between phonation (speech) and cantation (song), save in the length of the basic vowel sounds. The action of the nares, antra, pharyngeal dome, frontal sinuses, lips, teeth, tongue, soft and hard palates, epiglottis, breath-bands (false vocal cords), arytenoid cartilages, interarytenoid band, trachea, lungs, diaphragm, ribs, abdominal muscles and air are the same in both—or to shorten this text, the ''oripulations" (os=mouth, plenum=full) are alike in both. Indeed, as the writer showed in a paper published in 1873, "speech may be termed staccato song." A year later this view was published as original in London by an English observer. And now the serrations on the cylinders of the phonograph or gramophone have demonstrated the truth of this position, so that the kinship of phonation and song is proved. These things being so, the writer has thought for many years