Can You Break Glass With Voice?
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Fact or Fiction: Can You Break Glass With Voice?
Watch video proof that you really can break glass with your voice! We have all heard of the stories about how some people can break glass with their voice, or maybe you have seen it in a cartoon. Well guess what? It is 100% true and correct. Glass will vibrate or "resonate" at a certain frequency, and if done with enough power or volume, the glass will break! This is all based on the science of vocal resonance.
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Can You Break Glass With Voice?
As Seen On Mythbusters!
The TV show "Mythbusters" on Discovery Channel films and episode about whether it is a myth or truth that you can break glass with voice. The results will amaze you!
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WARNING!
Please do not try this at home unless you know what you are doing and have taken proper safety measures. Shattered glass may damage your eyes and cut your skin!
Jaime Vendera Breaks Glass With Voice!
Vocal coach Jaime Vendera illustrates how using vocal resonance at the right pitch can break a wine glass!
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How can you break glass with voice?
Is this real, or are you just pulling my chains?!
Those wine glasses have a certain property that determines which pitch it must be exposed to in order to vibrate. When that pitch is produced, at a loud enough volume or intensity, the wine glass will vibrate and as a result it may shatter. So yes, these videos are very real and are the result of real science based on the laws of physics.
Very cool stuff!
Continue reading about vocal resonance
Watch another incredible video about the human voice
This video was taken in a doctor's office with a small camera that was guided down into a patient's throat just above the vocal cords so you can examine the vocal cords and voice box. I bet you have never seen anything like this before! Well, considering you just watched videos about the human voice breaking glass, maybe you have seen some videos that are just as incredible.
Now isn't this stuff cool?
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adamfrench
Oct 2, 2011 @ 9:29 am | delete
- interesting lens, my friends joke that my singing would even break safety glass
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kitty222
Sep 26, 2011 @ 5:25 pm | delete
- Cool...I aways figured this sort of thing was getting into the X-Men realm. But I do know sound waves can break things. I've heard of airplane wings breaking off because something happened to create a resonance frequency that was equal to the length of the wing, and it snapped like a whip.
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Close2Art
Sep 4, 2011 @ 8:14 am | delete
- very cool lens, I've often wondered about sound waves and their strength...
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