Sunday, June 20, 2010

US gospel singer croaks out lowest note ever sung

A former gospel singer from Illinois has hit the lowest note ever produced by a human voice, according to Guinness World Records.

Roger Menees, from Anna, in the southern part of the state, received a certificate this week from the organisation.



Mr Menees, a coach driver for gospel and rock musicians, managed the feat on Feb 11 at his Carbondale recording studio. He hit 0.393 hertz - a very low F-sharp. The previous record was 0.797 hertz.

But Mr Menees says he could have done better and will probably make another attempt if his new record is bested anytime soon.

4 comments:

Jens said...

Isn't Hertz the unit of swings per second?
So .393 hz would be about 2 and a half second for one swing of the waves, so deep, you can't hear it.
What we hear at the end of the video is around 6-8 hz i assume (didn't measure it).
Maybe it was meant .393 seconds for one swind, leading to approx 2.5hz?

xezzy said...

thats amazing, i saw this guy in justice's "across the universe" DVD and he was indeed a bus driver there. And he mentioned once that he plans to set record on the lowest note ever sung.

Mr. Amazing said...

Doesn't it remind you of a nice and steady "buuuuurp"?

Joao Vitor said...

Yes, that's definately wrong. Anway, the YouTube description states it's 8 Hz (or that was the record he broke, I didn't understand.)