In Reply to: 2.5 is impressive in my book... heck, 88 keys is a little over 7 octave... many GREAT singers are unknown~nT posted by Cleantimestream on September 7, 2014 at 09:37:59:
Whenever I see claims of singing range as 4 octaves or more, the FOS alarm goes off........When one claims a four-octave range, he/she often ignores the fact that hitting the same note over four octaves is actually a three-octave range. (It's like that old fence math problem: If posts are 10 feet apart, how long would a fence be with 10 posts. The answer is NOT 100 feet. It's 90 feet.)
Think about it, even a three octave range is rare with singers..... Amongst the males, the only one I can think of is maybe Paul McCartney...... Amongst the females, Mariah Carey is three octaves.
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