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The vocal pedagogue and voice researcher Manuel Garcia, in the mid-19th century, first coined the term \u201ccoup de la glotte\u201d. Given that Garcia defined the process as \u201ca precise articulation of the glottis that leads to a precise and clean tone attack\u201d, the term can certainly be linked to the concept of \u201cvocal onset\u201d as we understand it today. However, Garcia did not, by any means, have the technical measures at his disposal to investigate this phenomenon. In order to better understand modern ways of investigating vocal onset\u2014and the limitations that still exist\u2014it seems worthwhile to approach the subject from a historical perspective. High-speed video laryngoscopy (HSV) can be regarded as the gold standard among today\u2019s examination methods. Nonetheless, it still does not allow the three-dimensionality of vocal fold vibrations to be examined as it relates to vocal onset. Clearly, measuring methods in voice physiology have developed fundamentally since Garcia\u2019s time. This offers grounds for hope that the still unanswered questions around the phenomenon of vocal onset will be resolved in the near future. 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