Editing Comb (section)

===Making music===
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Stringing a plant's leaf or a piece of paper over one side of the comb and humming with cropped lips on the opposite side dramatically increases the high-frequency harmonic content of the hum produced by the human voice box, and the resulting spread sound spectrum can be modulated by changing the resonating frequency of the oral cavity.<ref>{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=fVrIoX5kQt8C|title = The Everything Lawn Care Book: From Seed to Soil, Mowing to Fertilizing – hundreds of Tips for Growing a Beautiful Lawn|last = Green|first = Douglas|year = 2001|publisher = Adams Media|isbn = 9781580624879|page = 23|language = en}}{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> This was the inspiration for the [[kazoo]], a [[membranophone]].

The comb is also a [[lamellophone]]. Comb teeth have [[harmonic]] qualities of their own, determined by their shape, length, and material. A comb with teeth of unequal length, capable of producing different notes when picked, eventually evolved into the [[thumb piano]]<ref>{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4CeFAC5MdxwC|title = The Cambridge History of American Music|last = Nicholls|first = David|year = 1998|publisher = Cambridge University Press|isbn = 9780521454292|language = en}}</ref> and [[music box]].<ref>{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ckw5AQAAIAAJ|title = Cylinder musical box technology: including makers, types, dating, and music|last = Bulleid|first = Henry Anthony Vaughan|year = 1994|publisher = Almar Press|isbn = 9780930256227|language = en|access-date = 2016-03-07|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161223064347/https://books.google.com/books?id=ckw5AQAAIAAJ|archive-date = 2016-12-23|url-status = live}}</ref>