Since children grow unevenly, one guy may also be a small sprout, and his bass is already breaking through with might and main, and the other has grown a mile away, and the larynx is still small, the voice is still childish. These are the boys who have the hardest time, they are more embarrassed than others by their voice. What happens to the vocal cords and at what age?

Says otorhinolaryngologist and phoniatrist, d. Gennady Ivanchenko.

Whistles and flutes The voice is produced by several body systems: the larynx, vocal folds (in everyday speech they are called cords), lungs, chest and nasopharynx. A jet of air, escaping from the lungs, causes the vocal folds to vibrate at a certain frequency, while the chest and nasopharynx serve as resonators. The larger and thicker the vocal folds, the lower the sound. Although not always. For example, Caruso's vocal folds were twice as large as those of other profundo basses, and Caruso sang in tenor, according to Pannochka, an online publication for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old.. net In boys, as in girls, the larynx is small, the folds are small, and only their edges vibrate under the influence of a stream of air. Experts call this the falsetto mechanism of sound production.. Larynx - like a whistle. Nature designed it so that a child, in whom all sound-producing systems are still small, could still be heard. And in fact, the squeals of children are so well audible that, for example, going to school during a break, you can simply go deaf..

Folds are a hormone-dependent structure. But at the age of 13-14, under the influence of various hormones, mainly sex hormones, the vocal folds begin to grow, lengthen and thicken in boys.. These folds are a hormone-dependent structure. It is not for nothing that eunuchs have a high, childish voice - they themselves have the complexion of quite adult men, and the vocal folds do not reach adult sizes, because sex hormones are not produced in the body..

For the same reason, the voice of the elderly becomes higher - after all, there are less and less sex hormones in the body.. And in women, in old age, on the contrary, the voice sounds at lower tones, again there are not enough hormones, only female hormones that change folds so that the sound is high and sonorous.

For an adult, however, such a mechanism for the formation of sound is more natural, when the entire fold vibrates, the voice wave goes both horizontally and vertically. Therefore, the adult voice turns out to be deeper, more beautiful, and more diverse in color.. In normal speech, we use 2-3 tones above and below our root tone.. And the singer takes two octaves.

Fear of the new. But the problem here is rather not physiological, but psychological: the boy is used to the sound of his children's voice, and the new voice - baritone or bass - scares him. When speaking, he uses either the old mechanism for the birth of sound, or a new one..

Since children grow unevenly, one guy may also be a small sprout, and his bass is already breaking through with might and main, and the other has grown a mile away, and the larynx is still small, the voice is still childish. These boys, who are ahead of their peers or behind them, have the hardest time, they are more embarrassed than others by their voice. But for the majority, breaking the voice is a normal physiological process: the voice has become lower and rougher - well, okay. Most quickly find a new mechanism for the formation of sounds.

In rare cases, one of the teenagers needs the help of a phonopedist - a voice production specialist who usually works with singers.. Is that a few of those who grow up surrounded by women alone. These boys even have no one to imitate, no one to take an example from. But even for them, one lesson is usually enough, in which a doctor or phonopedist will show exercises for setting and fixing a normal male voice.

Three features There are three features of the adolescent mutation that are useful for parents to know..

•During the breaking of the voice, it is not necessary to load the vocal folds. And the boys, unfortunately, do not take care of them, they strain them at every step: sometimes, while playing football, they yell like crazy, then they sing songs with a guitar at the top of their lungs... Due to overvoltage, nodules can appear on the folds, doctors call them that -. These nodules change the vibration of the folds and the voice becomes hoarse.. Some nodules then dissolve by themselves if the load drops, but sometimes they have to be removed - to do microsurgical operations.

•Colds can delay the mutation. Not always a red throat in a teenager is a sign of a respiratory infection.

When the larynx grows, blood circulation increases in it, the tissues become more red, it seems that the child has laryngitis. They begin to treat the boy for a cold, give him medicines, take him to the doctors... And there is just a normal physiological process.

If the mutation has dragged on, that is, the boy has already stopped growing up, and his voice has not become manly low, you need to show the teenager to the phoniatrist. The longer a guy speaks in falsetto, the more difficult it will be for him to switch to adult tones..

• What kind of " It happens in childhood a high clear voice, but a mutation has passed, and the voice turned out to be the most banal - both in color, and in timbre, and in strength. A well-known example is Robertino Loretti.. And nothing can be done: what is given is given.

interesting funny case. Once an officer turned to phoniatrists - doctors who study the features of the work of the vocal apparatus, and not of the smallest rank. Quite an adult man, and the voice is like that of a boy. It turns out frivolously. The doctors helped him, taught him to speak in a baritone.

Vadim Kirillov.

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