Re: [microsound] human voice range

[Phil Thomson <philthom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Depends on the voice of course, as well as on the sound it's making. 
Certainly telephones have been designed with that frequency response in 
mind as the minimum bandwidth required for voice intelligibility. I don't 
know about how the range of instruments corresponds to the range of the 
voice. It seems to me there are just as many instruments that go beyond 
the range of the normal voice (piccolo, double bass) as there are that 
nestle within a voicelike range for the most part (clarinet, violin). 
Originally, instruments were designed to be sung with, so they certainly 
needed to have a similar range to a voice, but now that instrumental music 
has become so independent of the voice, it's not necessarily the case any 
more. Perhaps the history of the development of instruments in "Western" 
music is the history of the move of instrumental music away from the role 
of accompaniment and towards an independent realm.

P


> Hi list,
>
>
> is that correct that
> human voice range covers 300 Hz to 3500 Hz ?
>
> is that why most instruments have been designed
> in this range?
>
>
> any idea(s)?
> thank you
>
> Thanos



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