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What is the highest note ever sung by a human being?

Question #53869. Asked by ShakeyMikey.
Last updated Jun 13 2017.

Arpeggionist
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Arpeggionist
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Somewhere around F, over 3 octaves above Middle C. I don't know who produced the note. That would be somewhere in the area of 2,800 Hertz.

Jan 10 2005, 10:39 AM
mibmob
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Yma Sumac could sing C in alt - the C above high C. F is probably the highest note ever written - eg Mozart's the impressario and Queen of the Night in Zauberflote.

Jan 10 2005, 2:00 PM
griffinj
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As a die-hard fan of Mme. Sumac, a gorgeously exotic oasis amid the Pat Boone-Connie Francis deserts of the 50's, may I beg to edit Mibs' answer from could to can, and still does. Long may she trill.

Jan 10 2005, 2:51 PM
Arpeggionist
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The note I was talking about was an octave higher than Mozat's Queen of the Night could sing.

Jan 10 2005, 3:10 PM
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TabbyTom
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In March 1770 Leopold Mozart (Amadeus’s father) heard the soprano Lucrezia Aguiari (also spelled Agujari) hit C in altissimo; that’s three octaves above middle C, but admittedly a fourth below Arpeggionist’s record.

It is generally agreed that standard concert pitch has been forced up a semitone or so since Mozart’s day, so a modern ear with perfect pitch would hear the note as B (five ledger lines above the stave).

Jan 10 2005, 5:34 PM
Arpeggionist
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Julie Andrews was said to have a range of 5 octaves. If this is true, and her range started one octave below Middle C (as is the case for most women, especially singers), then she could have even topped the record I know of (which is really more of a scream than a sung note usually).

Jan 10 2005, 5:45 PM
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Georgia Brown of Brazil holds the Guinness World Record for this, I believe the note was G10, that is to say, six and a half octaves above middle C. Whether this could be described as singing is debatable, but is certainly the highest pitch produced by a human voice on record.

Georgia Brown is a Brazilian singer noted for her extensive vocal range. She currently holds the Guinness World Records for hitting the highest vocal note and for possessing the greatest range, which spans exactly 8 octaves from G2-G10 using scientific pitch notation. She also has 5 octave of singing voice.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Brown_(Brazilian_singer)



Response last updated by gtho4 on Jun 13 2017.
Sep 10 2008, 8:55 AM
FAF3562
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Julie Andrews hit F above top C at the age of 12.
You can hear it here at the end:
link http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2-YGGn0y4

Nov 24 2008, 12:37 PM
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