Can you manage a low 'E'? That's 3 octaves below middle C…
mainIf you can, Decca want to hear from you. Will-and-Kate wedding composer Paul Mealor has written something that goes right off the scale and needs a latterday Chaliapin to bring it off. Please do not try this at home.
Read on here.
That’s about an octave and a half lower than my lowest note…a G/A…
http://www.primefan.ru/stuff/music/zvon.mp3
Here at 3:59 you can hear really good Russian E1 which Decca calls for.
The soloist is Yuri Vishnyakov, he lives in Moscow.
Vladimir Miller (for sure, I’ve heard him do E1)
Fernando Araujo (maybe)
Campbell Vertesi (maybe)
Mikhail Kruglov (maybe)
These two are retired , but they used to sing notes like this:
Vladimir Pasyukov
Mikhail Zlatopolsky
You probably want several guys doubling this note if performed in any sizable space. It’s hard to project solo.
May be it will be interesting for you.
Thanks. Sorry for my English…
Yours faithfully – Vitaly.
I think i hit the note not sure, submitted my entry anyway. Hopefully i did.
well done! keep us posted.
Someone might want to make the chaps at Decca aware that, at standard A=440 tuning, that e is 41.203 Hz. There are few speaker systems that will reproduce that frequency with any accuracy – it would really require the use of a subwoofer. And, played through an iPod or some such device, it will essentially be inaudible – and if audible it would be significantly distorted.
The reference I checked online says that sounds below 35 Hz are felt more than truly heard. They might as well incorporate some dog whistles as well!
Just for the record, I sing down to B1 (61.725 Hz), but truly, anything below the D (73.416 Hz) is not much more than a growl. But I am a baritone and the lowest I need to sing is the D (it’s an optional low note for Tonio in Act 2 of Pagliacci). Maybe a true tiefer bass would be heard below B1, live. But a record producer putting that low a tone in a recording and expecting that it will reproduce anywhere near accurately on general consumer electronics is a great optimist, at the least.