come to think of it my range probably goes higher than I think... because I'd feel comfortable singing the top F three ledger lines above the stave in public... I can reach the A above that OK as well... but I've not tried singing up into the stratosphere yet!

Wow Cheeble, put me down for tickets when you're singing the Queen of the Night and Zerbinetta anywhere! I can easily manage the G below middle C up to the C two octaves above middle C, but have been known to go lower (with a cold) or higher (after a few sherbets).

The latter is not recommended, especially in a crowded pub...

Agree with other people about how warmed up you are. The extremes of register come after I've sung for a while (so don't ask me to come in cold on a top C!).

Curious how there are no tenors or basses who've posted here.

hace you noticed though how sometimes it's not so much top or bottom notes but passaggio? I often find depending on how a piece is writeen that I am uncomfortable around C/D/E an octave above middle C, but once I get up to F or G it's fine. Like there's a "hole". Which is why it is so nice singing pieces by composers who knew human voice as opposed to ones who just wrote music that needs to be sung....! Mozart for one was known to work with his favourite singers and changed some top notes to accomodate them....

QUOTE (lafrog @ Jan 20 2005, 06:35 PM)

Mozart for one was known to work with his favourite singers and changed some top notes to accomodate them....

I can sing Mozart for ever, but Bach?! Wonderful, but not written for singers....

QUOTE (Emma C @ Jan 20 2005, 07:00 PM)

I can sing Mozart for ever, but Bach?! Wonderful, but not written for singers....

LOL....Like he forgot we were supposed to breathe at some point...

breathing? that's something that has nothing to do with music, didn't you know? lol...

(Bach's a little like that for wind players, too... )

My barbershop director always says that one really needs gills, like fish have, so that one could breathe without needing to stop and breathe through the mouth!

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QUOTE (Rhapsodin @ Feb 4 2005, 01:14 PM)

Me? I used to be a spice girl

*boggle*

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QUOTE (Rhapsodin @ Feb 4 2005, 01:14 PM)

I think you'll find that's myth. She could grunt but even if you take that into account, her range on record is about 3 1/2 octaves. Slightly less than Minnie Ripperton.

Check out my post on the previous page - you can hear her high squeal AND low grunt on the website, quite amusing really!!!

Errr. Who is Minnie Ripperton?

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QUOTE (lafrog @ Feb 4 2005, 03:13 PM)

Check out my post on the previous page - you can hear her high squeal AND low grunt on the website, quite amusing really!!!

maybe I'm just being stupid,* but couldn't find any recordings of her on the site...

high squeal and low grunt eh? nice...

Rhaps:... LOL!


* please don't feel obliged to agree...

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QUOTE (sarah-flute @ Feb 4 2005, 03:34 PM) high squeal and low grunt eh? nice... Yerss, that's what happens when you get modulated into the wrong key by the wrong modulator!!!

ta, I'll check it out

just listened to a couple of audio files... don't know whether to be amused or scared...

That's how I felt the first time I heard Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights. But actually I really like her voice. It's a bit like Lime Pickle - really odd the first time, but strangely addictive.....

My dad was a big Kate Bush fan. I now have Wuthering Heights going round in my head she does have an interesting voice... though... I think I probably prefer lime pickle... I can't remember any of her other songs. Bit too bizarre for me I think!

All that talk of Lime Pickle has got me craving a stonking great curry now! How can I persuade David that a take away is an essential part of his treatment programme?!?!?!

lol Amber. i like Wuthering Heights- i havent heard the Kate Bush version ive heard it on my Hayley Westenra album though

QUOTE (Amber @ Feb 4 2005, 04:14 PM)

All that talk of Lime Pickle has got me craving a stonking great curry now! How can I persuade David that a take away is an essential part of his treatment programme?!?!?!

spices warm you up don't they? and that's good for healing. Yes, really...

(so I made it up, it's got to be worth a try...)

Nat: as far as I remember the Kate Bush version, Hayley Westenra's is pretty similar.

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QUOTE (sarah-flute @ Feb 4 2005, 05:01 PM) spices warm you up don't they? and that's good for healing. Yes, really... (so I made it up, it's got to be worth a try...) Spices are definitely therapeutic/medicinal. That's how the characteristic preparation of asian food started

there ya go, I just made up something that tunred out to be ancient asian wisdom. I'm a genius!

QUOTE (sarah-flute @ Feb 4 2005, 04:03 PM)

just listened to a couple of audio files... don't know whether to be amused or scared...

Be scared. VERY scared.


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QUOTE (Rhapsodin @ Feb 5 2005, 08:41 AM)

Dr Mustapha Pille.

QUOTE (Neon-lights @ Feb 5 2005, 12:23 PM)

QUOTE (sarah-flute @ Feb 4 2005, 04:03 PM) just listened to a couple of audio files... don't know whether to be amused or scared... Be scared. VERY scared. .'.

Who else said they had a range of more than 5 octaves? I thought i was the only world record holder on these forums!

I have 5 octaves before my voice goes ultrasonic. Not that the dogs are appreciative.

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QUOTE (Wyldbabi @ Feb 5 2005, 06:42 PM)

I have 5 octaves before my voice goes ultrasonic. Not that the dogs are appreciative. V

Oooh yeah, I forgot to count ultrasonic! Do you know the "Johnny English" film with Rowan Atkinson where he tries to open the lock of a door by singing in ultrasonic?!

QUOTE (july @ Feb 5 2005, 06:44 PM)

QUOTE (Wyldbabi @ Feb 5 2005, 06:42 PM) I have 5 octaves before my voice goes ultrasonic.  Not that the dogs are appreciative. V Oooh yeah, I forgot to count ultrasonic! Do you know the "Johnny English" film with Rowan Atkinson where he tries to open the lock of a door by singing in ultrasonic?!

Now THAT is top-quality humour.

I like it when hes trying so sing in Eb to try to create a mental map of the area and he walks straight into a wall

QUOTE (Saxophonist @ Feb 5 2005, 10:53 PM)

I like it when hes trying so sing in Eb to try to create a mental map of the area and he walks straight into a wall

Oh yeah ! "Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing! Thanks for all the joys...". I love the bit at the funeral and the hospital. He is just first-class at getting into the most akward situations! I really like the soundtrack, too.

its on sky movies now.

QUOTE (Saxophonist @ Feb 6 2005, 12:51 PM)

its on sky movies now.

What does that mean? *hides in shame*

I have a very unusual voice I can sing, (when warmed up) an G flat an octave and a half below middle C, Up to a D to octaves above middle C, in tune. Any higher sounds a bit like breaking glass. Just wondering can any other people hear sing baritone, whilst maintaining tonality. Or am I just going to end up the worlds freakiest mezzo soprano?

QUOTE (july @ Feb 6 2005, 12:53 PM)

QUOTE (Saxophonist @ Feb 6 2005, 12:51 PM) its on sky movies now. What does that mean? *hides in shame*

Sky Movies is the name of a english/american tv chanel

QUOTE (elmo @ Feb 25 2005, 03:30 PM)

QUOTE (july @ Feb 6 2005, 12:53 PM) QUOTE (Saxophonist @ Feb 6 2005, 12:51 PM) its on sky movies now. What does that mean? *hides in shame* Sky Movies is the name of a english/american tv chanel

Thanks!

QUOTE (Chorale @ Feb 25 2005, 12:45 PM)

I have a very unusual voice I can sing, (when warmed up) an G flat an octave and a half below middle C, Up to a D to octaves above middle C, in tune. Any higher sounds a bit like breaking glass. Just wondering can any other people hear sing baritone, whilst maintaining tonality. Or am I just going to end up the worlds freakiest mezzo soprano?

There was a woman in the village church choir when i was growing up who sang Tenor... I think it's pretty unusual, but not unheard of!

At its lowest ebb, my local choral society only had five tenors, two of them female. Things have improved alot since then: we're up to fifteen tenors on a good evening, all of them male.

Sometimes the tenors even sing higher than the altos!

The future head of music (who's male) can singer higher than my friend who's a really good soprano! She's had lessons to improve her range as well! It's freaky! We were asking him about it and how comes he could do it when he came for his interview

QUOTE (elmo @ Feb 26 2005, 04:02 PM)

The future head of music (who's male) can singer higher than my friend who's a really good soprano! She's had lessons to improve her range as well! It's freaky! We were asking him about it and how comes he could do it when he came for his interview

I bet you find he won't be able to have a family!

lol! I don't know that much, and I don't want to know that much!
I'm leaving this year, which is a good job, coz I wouldn't be able to look him straight in the face now! Mind you, couldn't anyway, after we saw him sing at a last night of the proms concert. That was disturbing, he made it look effortless!

My sisters said that you said the other guy got the head of music job?! The old deputy head of our school (male) could sing higher than i could!

Yeah I know, but that would've taken twice as long to explain on here!

The old guy got it, but only because he had more experience on terms of, and I quote "interaction with the students" the fat man would've got it!

There's two lads at band who can sing descants to christmas carols at pitch, much better and louder than we can!

My brother can sing almost as high as I can, because his voice hasn't broken yet. It's funny though, because he always says he's already a bass, but can actually only sing to the C below middle C (I can reach the E)! It's very sweet to see him try!

My brother can sing almost as high as I can, because his voice hasn't broken yet. It's funny though, because he always says he's already a bass, but can actually only sing to the C below middle C (I can reach the E)! It's very sweet to see him try!

I can sing (well I can pitch notes at least) from F an octave below middle C (or an Eb below that if i try) to just G below middle C!!! Whoa, man......less than two octaves aint good!

i dont have singin lessons but thats how much i can sing