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From: elkies@walsh.harvard.edu (Noam Elkies)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: average range? [Re: World's smallest, cheapist keyboard needed.]
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Date: 29 Jul 90 17:12:14 GMT
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In article <32208@cup.portal.com> Alvin@cup.portal.com (Alvin Henry White) writes:
>                      [...]  range exactly 3 octaves. f-f-f.  That exactly
>matches the range of the bottom of the base clef to the top of the treble
>clef, with middle c in the middle, the range of the average human voice~.
                                    ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^

A three-octave *average* vocal range!?  And here we subaverage humans kvetch
about the mere octave and a half of the _Star-Spangled Banner_.  By the
way, is this ``average human'' male or female?   :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

[And now some bass will post that he *can* span these three octaves
by including falsetto...]

--Noam D. Elkies (elkies@zariski.harvard.edu)
  Department of Mathematics, Harvard University