Talk:Seventh octave

You Left Shanice Off the List
Shanice can sing in the 7th octave. Check out her YouTube performance of 'Loving you'.

This is so wrong.
"The seventh octave is the first octave range of notes above the top of a piano" It is the very last key on a typical 88-key piano, so how can you say it is "above the top"??

Christina Aguilera cannot sing in the 7th octave!!

Tenor C??
"Tenor C" normally means C3.

Should the article read "tenor high C" instead?

Corrections
Tenor C is C5, not C3. C3 is low C in scientific pitch notation. The 7th octave is the last octave on an 88-key piano and the last note is C8. As for the Christina Aguilera comment, she can sing up to C7 (she sang C#7 in the Christmas Song) which is at the very bottom of the 7th octave, so technically, she can sing up there.

So can Mariah Carey, Minnie Ripperton, Adam Lopez, Rachelle Ferell, Tamar Braxton,leona lewis, and several others.

Removal of some classical singers
Natalie Dessay and Joan Sutherland have never sung in the 7th octave, so I've removed them. Sutherland's never gone past the F below the 7th octave, and Dessay never above the A below that C. And I don't know why Sumac is listed under the classical section?

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.78.122.30 (talk) 19:36, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Vitas?
I have read about rumours that Vitas can sing in the 7th octave using whistle register, but I haven't heard any evidence of this. As far as I'm aware, his highest note is E6, and highest sustained note E♭6. I think he uses falsetto to reach these soprano notes. If he really can hit the 7th octave I'd love to hear it (I have all his albums already), but I'm not sure where this information is coming from so I'll add a tag. The main Vitas article makes no such claim, sourced or otherwise. I do know that the sheet music site Musicnotes.com which is cited as a source on many Wikipedia articles appears to use a different notation system with the octaves numbered one higher than in scientific pitch notation, e.g. tenor high C would be C6 instead of C5 using their system, so although Musicnotes.com doesn't actually have any Vitas songs their different numbering of octaves could cause confusion. It's also possible for pitch analysis software to pick up on overtones and give a reading an octave too high. Contains Mild Peril (talk) 19:07, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Leona Lewis & Shanice Wilson cannot hit notes in the 7th octave
Leona Lewis's range is D3-F#6, which means her top note is nowhere near the seventh octave. Shanice's vocal range is C#3-Bb6, so she's a note and a semitone away from being able to hit notes in the seventh octave. Unless someone can find audio files of them hitting notes in the 7th octave, they need to be removed from the list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.26.188.254 (talk) 18:08, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Shanice does, she has a C#7 harmonized with an A5 in a song called "You are you" (I can get you the isolated vocal). It's barely noticeable but it is there. Also it makes complete sense she'd be able to get there when younger, as late as 1997 she was holding A6 and the song "Never Changing Love" from the third album has dozens o Bb6s, and they're held. You normally stop being able to sustain at your extremes. Her range is 4 octaves because her lower register isn't particularly extensive. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8A0:DCEB:D201:1CF2:D370:D26E:9695 (talk) 16:39, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

david anthony arcese ?
Can someone here told me who's david anthony arcese in this seventh octave article? any evidence(s) of him singing in the 7th octave? is he singer or what? never heard his name before... thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.15.23.188 (talk) 01:57, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Merge proposal
I propose merging Seventh octave into Octave, as the topic is not particularly noteworthy by itself, is covered by Octave and some other articles, and is unlikely to ever contain much content.


 * "The seventh octave in scientific pitch notation is the highest octave of an 88-key piano." – see Piano. A note of this can be added to Octave.


 * "Using middle C (C4) as a guide, the next higher C is C5 or tenor C. [...] The seventh octave is the range of notes between C7 and C8." – see Octave, Scientific pitch notation and Piano.


 * "While notes in the sixth octave, between soprano high C and C7, can have enough color to sound flutey or canary-like, the squeaky, whistly tones in the seventh octave help give the whistle register its name, as do the piercing qualities of notes in this octave." – see Whistle register

User:Kuulopuhe 14:25, 10 March 2024 (UTC)