When you sing in the shower your voice sounds louder and richer. Did you ever wonder why?
Your voice sounds loud in the bathroom because the room is small. Sound is a form of wave energy that can travel through air. But sound waves lose strength as they move through the air. That means that is get harder to hear a sound the farther you are from its source. In the bathroom, the sound waves do not travel very far. Sounds stay loud. You don’t even need a microphone to feel like you are on stage at a music concert!
The walls, ceiling, and floor also help your voice sound better. Sound waves bounce off the hard surfaces in a bathroom and come back to you. This makes your voice sound louder and clearer.
The air in the bathroom really gets into the act. Sound waves make the air vibrate. In a small space, this lets your ears catch a lot of those song vibrations.
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"Why your voice sounds louder in the bathroom?" was posted on Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 at 9:48 pm.
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