Alto (disambiguation)

Alto (Italian for "high") is a musical term that has several possible interpretations.

Alto may also refer to:

Brazil

 * Alto, Teresópolis, a neighborhood in Teresópolis, Brazil

Italy

 * Alto, Piedmont, a comune in the Province of Cuneo

United States

 * Alto, Arizona, a ghost town in Santa Cruz County
 * Alto, California, a former unincorporated community in Marin County
 * Alto, Georgia, a town divided between Banks County and Habersham County
 * Alto, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Howard County
 * Alto, Michigan, an unincorporated community in Kent County
 * Alto, New Mexico, an unincorporated community in Lincoln County
 * Alto, Texas, a town in Cherokee County
 * Alto, Wisconsin, a town in Fond du Lac County
 * Alto (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in Fond du Lac County

People

 * Alto of Altomünster, a German saint
 * Alto, spouse of Mr Percival, famous Australian pelican and film actor

Music

 * Alto, a voice part in choral music, sung by either:
 * Alto or Contralto, the lowest female voice
 * Male alto or contratenor, the highest male voice
 * Members of a family of instruments, including:
 * Althorn, the German name for tenor horn, a brass instrument
 * Alto saxophone, a woodwind instrument
 * Alto, the French name for viola, a string instrument
 * Alto clef

Technology

 * Direct Fly Alto, a Czech ultralight aircraft
 * Suzuki Alto, a Japanese car
 * Maruti Suzuki Alto, an Indian version of the Suzuki Alto
 * Xerox Alto, an experimental American personal computer
 * ALTO (interbank network), in Indonesia
 * ALTO (protocol), a protocol for applications to discover routing costs to different endpoints
 * ALTO (XML), an open XML standard to describe OCR text and layout information of printed documents
 * Air-launch-to-orbit, a method of launching rockets at altitude from a conventional horizontal-takeoff aircraft, abbreviated as "ALTO"

Other uses

 * Nilfisk-Advance, a supplier of professional cleaning equipment has an Alto brand
 * ALTO (film), a 2015 American-Italian mob comedy film
 * Alto's Adventure, a video game
 * Cirrus cloud, where the prefix "alto-" is applied to cloud genera
 * Alto (restaurant), a former restaurant in Manhattan, New York City