How to pronounce “vocal chords” in English

But because of the way the chimpanzee's vocal chords are constructed, they can't do the whole range of sounds that we do.

But if you have to do it a lot, it's very tough on your vocal chords.

Now, for those of you who don't know anything about singing, ice cold water actually freezes up your vocal chords, which is what's happened to me just now.

So even though a piano is so different from how our vocal chords work, we can still understand what it says.