Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-03-22


JENNY LIMBS VoIoE.-The following curious and in.
teresting article the "Mechanism of JENNY LIMBS
Voice" is copied from late English paper:
The voice of this great cantratrice is one of those
won ertnl natura gifts which providence occasionally
vouchsaies to favored mortal Jenny Lind possesses
wEatm be termed double roice the natural voice
from grave to the acute, range three octaves,
and she has the power and faculty OF producing re-
current, or backward voice into the lungs upon the
upper and lower notes in singing, which s purely
troquous, OF which faculty her echo" song is per-
iect Illustration Thus she is able to control her voice
upon the most difficult vibrations OF the vocal chords
to be perfect in her intervals and which renders her 50
surprising in the perfection Of her ntonatons that they
ring upon the ear with effect and charm indes-
cribable and puzzng to the hearer The popularity
is ihis ventroquous power and the wonderful part of
her yocasaon is that her organization enables her to
use those recurrent sounds the person whist
ing In the breath while inspiring. This faculty Jenny
LIND controls and manages with an ease, grace and
with such mastery artistica skill almost to defy
detection by the most refined and critical By this
recurren or ventroqual action she has the command
OF the eplgotls and its parts (he valve closing the
larygeal chamber when in the act Of swallowing j.
vibrating plates similar to the plates forming the bron
chill ssure OF the arynx which have stated the nat
ural passage for the air forming the voice
10 addition to the command over her vocal facu-
ties, she sings from the arynx while she throws the
vocal force from the lungs and diaphragm, giving to
it the strength the ullness, the roundness aud the
seadness and endurance OF the Craze or Chest voice."
By this immensely OF vocal power by the contraction
and dminuion OF the vocal chamber, she is enabled
trl and revel high into alto without any detection
from her hearers OF any stop, of any changen her
voice. Thus her lntonations and modulaons by this
peculiar organization, are rendered perfect, and her
upper and lower notes given with an nhe xbility
and sotness of which her dying away echo tone is
practical illustration
"Linked sweetness long drawn out"
also each cadenza "run, "shake" and etrill'
made upon her tones with decision, fexibily purity
and correctness that only surpassed by the delicate
yet magnificent swell and chaste dimnuendo of her
middle and lower tones which has established that Sin
descrbabe peculiarly" in her voice, and emphaticaly
or these ALL Ia her tring note she has the ia
Guilty OF using the accessory 1t
opinion, that the exercising OF these notes and this
roquous faculty, by over tasking her powers. lost to
Jenny Lind her voice for period. These accessory
notes. although dissmilar rendered artisticay
rect and at strike the mind awaken attention. and
wonderment, both to the and their execution
1t all sufficient however, that pleasing charm OF
exquisite novelty exces the admiration and calls forth
the spontaneous bursts oenhusasm from her audiences
who have placed the cantarce for these pecuar
ties upon the pinnacle of tame where she stands herself
--aIone-Jenny Lind.
A Coop ToAsT.-At the st. Patrick's celebration
in Baltimore, the following was among the regular
toasts:
THE UMoN-A tree OF majestic growth
Woodman, spare that tree,
Touch not single bough;
In youth it sheltered me,
And I'll protect it now
tAR-"Rno,o ge the Land."1
,ba xuoe v,itt min