The Bird Chorus by Charles Kellogg

[MaerdYsatnaf]

He's not in whistle register. He's doing this with his throat. Shit's intense.

[nandorock4c]

i found one street singer who can do it, it was amazing..., i was like 2 hours thinking omg, maybe no one else knows its like chrles kellogg...

[ROBOTkw1]

HUUUUMMMMBOOOOLLLDTT!! :]]]]

[VagrantA]

wow,this is amzing, he could do all of that!

[Follettopuck95]

Veramente eccezionale.....visto in una puntata di mythbuster. Resto esterreffatto che qualcuno dica che raggiungesse le 12.5 ottave, che a mio avviso non esistono in musica.

ottava = otto estensioni.

Grazie Kellog per avermi stupito di questa rarissima caratteristica vocale timbrica e non.

[postmodernteatowel]

maybe he has some sort of rare laryngeal mutation of some sort? it cud be possible then?

[ASSHOLELA]

12.5 OCTAVES MEANS SIMOUTANEOUSLY HOLDING THE WORLD RECORD FOR LOWEST AND HIGHEST NOTE AT THE SAME TIME.

(unless he can go into the 11th octave that is)

[moesalim88]

how can you say he has a 12.5 vocal range

it's impossible

these notes are maybe in the 7th or 8th octave

how lw can he go

so he can't have more than 5 to 6 octaves

[RoyalSaiyan]

he claimed that he has 12.5, but... it is hard to do experiment now... he is dead long ago~

[GameFreakBart]

It's true, search on the internet and you'll find.

[mlaygo]

@moesalim88 The highest in this recording are somewhere in the 9th octave, not 8, just FYI.

[DieselBikeBuilder]

Thats my great uncle, or should I say my great great grandmothers brother. You should also look up his Travel Log he built on a 1917 Nash Quad, 1st and oldest Motorhome ever built with a 4,400+ year old redwood log.

Thanks, Dave

[slazed19]

this is super interesting.

just thought alot of pl missed that point

[SantaClause49]

I think I read somewhere this guy can go ultra sonic.

[yaysoda]

12.5 vocal range is extremely good I go to an art/communication school and I take writing/singing classes because they're my best areas, my range is 5 and my teacher tells me thats good, he can only go 6.5 and he was once pro himself.

[slazed19]

you can actually do 5 octaves?

like, c1 c2 c3 c4 c5?

[madsketcher]

12.5 is physically impossible. That's more notes than the damn piano.

[Anthonyk312]

so. there are a bunch of people who can do more than a piano. thats not an argument you can use to disprove the possibility of 12.5 octaves.

[mlaygo]

@madsketcher Lots of people can exceed the piano and some people can also go lower than it. The world record for the lowest human vocal not is some 0.300 something Hz. I don't see how this couldn't be possible.

[RLAAMJR]

it's not as high as Georgia Brown can do

[kranen1]

Maybe not but Kellogg had a 12.5 octave range, Brown has like 8 ^^

[TaylorMayed07]

he ''claimed'' he had a 12.5 octave vocal range. His claims are VERY VERY hard to verify

[kranen1]

Yeah, but he had abviously a larger range than Georgia Brown :P

[slipersox]

is this edited?

[DavidN23Skidoo]

I record these for You Tube by placing a microphone in front of my Brunswick windup phonograph, and recording to my computer using Audacity. I used the noise removal for a while, but gave that up because it really kills the sound quality on these old acoustic records. I do use a new needle for every play. I save the sound file as an MP3, then put it in the soundtrack for YouTube. It is a strange mix of old tech and high tech.  This record has had very little play and is extra nice.

[slipersox]

so like this is jus this guy whistling. he hasn't recorded over it to make it sound like 2 sounds at once?

[DavidN23Skidoo]

He could whistle and use his vocal cords at the same time.  He had an extremely large range of notes he could make with his vocal cords. There is a good website about him if you do an Internet search.

[slipersox]

goood, as i'm in an argument with my friend, who is a great whistler, and i was saying how kellogg is better and he said that this was edited. but it isn't ha!

[FrozenMermaid666]

He never used whistle register! He used his throat to produce those sounds cuz he had the larynx of a bird ('He claimed to have the larynx of a bird (called a syrinx).')!!!!

This is the truth!

Georgia Brown, Nicola Sedda & Adam Lopez use whistle register! :D

[BptAngel1976]

this is truly amazing its weird how the human voice is able to imitate all these beautiful sounds of nature and also how rare is something like this very nice