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SOME two years ago I asked for suggestions as to the formation of an artificial hiss, and I remarked that the best I had then been able to do was by blowing through a rubber tube nipped at about half an inch from the open end with a screw clamp, but that the sound so obtained was perhaps more like an f and than an s. “There is reason to think that the ear, at any rate of elderly people, tires rapidly to a maintained hiss. The pitch is of the order of 10,000 per second.” 1 The last remark was founded upon experiments already briefly described2 under the head “Pitch of Sibilants.”
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RAYLEIGH On the Character of the “S” Sound . Nature 95, 645–646 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095645a0
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