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Can your voice be altered if your vocal cords are damaged?

Updated: 8/18/2019
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Yes, it can change it in many ways. Especially things that are easily affected such as the pitch of your voice.

Have you ever blown up a balloon and then squeezed the end between your thumb and first ringer with both hands and pulled tight, letting the air out slowly to hear a strange sound? Well imagine those are your vocal chords. Now if you were to do that and slowly move your hands closer and further away from one another you would notice right away that the pitch of the noise would change instantly. The tighter they are, the more high pitch and vice versa. This is just like your vocal chords (actually shaped just like them too!). That's how easily the sound is affected by changes.

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