| OCR Text |
Show VOiCE WITH FIVE CCTAVEs Austrian Utters Notes Whose Vibrations Vibra-tions Range From 42 Up to 1,740 in a Second. At a recent meeting of the Austrian society of experimental phonetics in Vienna, Doctor Rethl presented Michael Prlta, age forty-four, whose voice possesses the reuiarkuble range of five complete octaves. The deepest note uttered by this singer sing-er was a buss F corresponding to 42 vibrations per second and two octaves lower, therefore, than the deepest note which can be produced on the violin. The only previous record of so low a tone in the human voice Is that of a bass singer named Fischer, who lived in the early part of the Eighteenth century. Prita also rendered upper C with Its full artistic value. Beyond that the notes passed Into the head register and into a falsetto resembling a soprano, says the English Eng-lish Mechanic quoted in the Scientific American. The highest notes emitted were the upper F (deml-semi-quaver), and on exceptional occasions upper A (deml-semi-quaver)', corresponding to 1,740 vibrations per second which is one note higher than the highest sung by Pattl. |
