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Title: Science measures voice emotion
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated January 19, 1929 reads, "The scientific apparatus, which Dr. Wagner spent three years in perfecting, reveals the emotion, or vibrato, in Mildred Dutcher's voice is ideal for "blues" singing. Upper graph shows her "even" voice record before training. Lower graph shows how training has pitched her voice lower and more vibrant, as revealed by increased jaggedness of the "emotion line."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00095922
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 102.
CARL0005059178
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33261
Subject: Technological innovations--California--Los Angeles
College teachers--California--Los Angeles
Inventions--California--Los Angeles
Inventions--Miscellanea
Acoustic streaming
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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