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Author: FT
Date: 2002-01-17 20:18
I think that I read some where, that the octocontraclarinet's(sorry. I forgot the name) lowest note(C) is one octave below the lowest C on the piano (correct me if I'm wrong) . Is there an instrument that plays or played a lower note???
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-01-17 20:23
Absolutely there is ... The Sydney Town Hall's "Grand Pipe Organ" has a stop (Contra Trombone) which is pitched at 64 feet - which is much lower, I think.
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Author: Dee
Date: 2002-01-17 20:42
Something is not quite right here. The lowest note on a piano is A0 at 27.5 Hertz. For "normal" human hearing, the range of hearable frequencies is 20 Hertz to 20,000 Hertz. The C that is one octave below the lowest piano C would then fall outside the range of normal hearing. You would be able to feel the air pulsations in your skin for example if they were strong but it would not get translated into sound. Of course you could hear any higher level harmonics that might be generated.
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-01-17 20:46
The sound of the lowest C on the 64 foot Contra Trombone is more like a demonic clapping ... you're right - it's in not a "musical sound" as such.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-01-17 20:57
16Hz is generally used as the "lowest note" criteria, at least I remember reading as much sometime way back in my " care about acoustics" days.
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2002-01-17 21:07
The Contrabass board recently discussed the 64' pipe. Apparently it's fundamental frequence is about 8 Hz.
They then turned to what happens when the wind blows over the top of the world's tallest chimney, which is about a quarter mile closed tube. The consensus was that it would "sound" a D at 1.2 beats every 5 seconds.
Ken Shaw
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Author: IHL
Date: 2002-01-17 23:38
lowest note ever played on a <i>clarinet</i> was on an octocontrabass (remember that name!) and was subsonic. for more information, check out this very low-pitched website:
http://www.contrabass.com/pages/frequency.html
and the winner is... SIDONEE!
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Author: Joe O'Kelly
Date: 2002-01-18 02:40
How about the highest note?
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Author: Jim E.
Date: 2002-01-18 04:31
Dee gave the nominal range which is the 20-20,000 Hz but remember that not all of us have anything like normal range, and a significant portion of an audience might not get anything out of such "notes" anyway.
I do however appreciate the rumble in my seat from the lowest tones of a really large pipe organ.
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Author: IHL
Date: 2002-01-18 08:58
hihgest note ever played is also on that chart. That is, highest note on a regular instrument. A computer could no doubt produce much higher tones. Oh, and theres also dog whistles but I don't think they count as musical instruments since they have only one fixed, (probably) out-of-tune note.
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Author: javier garcia
Date: 2002-01-18 14:05
AFAIK, the highest note on an orchestral partition is the highest C done by a Piccolo (as in Malher's 1st symphonie). I know that violins can play higher but I've never seen above high A, a third below the high C piccolo.
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Author: IHL
Date: 2002-01-18 22:46
well, I much prefer the low notes all the same
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Author: David Pegel
Date: 2002-01-19 12:29
The highest note on a piccolo, BTW, would also double as the highest note on a piano, right?
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