What is the highest note ever sung by a human being?

Arpeggionist

Somewhere around F, over 3 octaves above Middle C. I don't know who produced the note. That would be somewhere in the area of 2,800 Hertz. Jan 10 05, 10:39 AM

mibmob

Yma Sumac could sing C in alt - the C above high C. F is probably the highest note ever written - eg Mozart's the impressario and Queen of the Night in Zauberflote. Jan 10 05, 2:00 PM

griffinj

As a die-hard fan of Mme. Sumac, a gorgeously exotic oasis amid the Pat Boone-Connie Francis deserts of the 50's, may I beg to edit Mibs' answer from could to can, and still does. Long may she trill. Jan 10 05, 2:51 PM

Arpeggionist

The note I was talking about was an octave higher than Mozat's Queen of the Night could sing. Jan 10 05, 3:10 PM

TabbyTom

In March 1770 Leopold Mozart (Amadeus’s father) heard the soprano Lucrezia Aguiari (also spelled Agujari) hit C in altissimo; that’s three octaves above middle C, but admittedly a fourth below Arpeggionist’s record. It is generally agreed that standard concert pitch has been forced up a semitone or so since Mozart’s day, so a modern ear with perfect pitch would hear the note as B (five ledger lines above the stave). Jan 10 05, 5:34 PM

Arpeggionist

Julie Andrews was said to have a range of 5 octaves. If this is true, and her range started one octave below Middle C (as is the case for most women, especially singers), then she could have even topped the record I know of (which is really more of a scream than a sung note usually). Jan 10 05, 5:45 PM

mhunter2

Georgia Brown of Brazil holds the Guinness World Record for this, I believe the note was G10, that is to say, six and a half octaves above middle C. Whether this could be described as singing is debatable, but is certainly the highest pitch produced by a human voice on record. Georgia Brown is a Brazilian singer noted for her extensive vocal range. She currently holds the Guinness World Records for hitting the highest vocal note and for possessing the greatest range, which spans exactly 8 octaves from G2-G10 using scientific pitch notation. She also has 5 octave of singing voice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Brown_(Brazilian_singer) [Lower text w/ link added -- Zb] Sep 10 08, 8:55 AM

FAF3562

Julie Andrews hit F above top C at the age of 12. You can hear it here at the end: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2-YGGn0y4 Nov 24 08, 12:37 PM