Man With World's Deepest Voice Can Hit Infrasonic Notes

An anonymous reader writes "The man who holds the Guinness record for the world's lowest voice can hit notes so low that only animals as big as elephants are able to hear them. American singer Tim Storms, who also has the world's widest vocal range, can reach notes as low as G-7 (0.189Hz), an incredible eight octaves below the lowest G on the piano."

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World's Worst Superpowerr

[Anonymous Coward]

"You can break glasses with your voice?"

"No, that's at the other end of the scale."

"But you can communication with elephants? Call them to rescue you and fight battles?"

"No, but they can hear me."

Re:World's Worst Superpowerr

[Anonymous Coward]

His superpower is the ability to make you shit your pants with the brown note.

Yeah, yeah, I know... Mythbusters, bla bla bla...

Re:World's Worst Superpowerr

[mythosaz]

I'm not willing to rule out his ability to call elephants to battle.

He's badass until proven otherwise.

Shipping Forecast

[Dripdry]

Is it so wrong for a man to do the shipping report?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emh75AYxnzk

Re:No longer vocalizations

[shokk]

"this is not sound anymore"

Tell that to the elephants.

Re:But can he sing?

[Anonymous Coward]

Not sure he'd want to even try. He might end up on the business end of some elephant wood!

Re:No longer vocalizations

[PostPhil]

People claiming that they can make "a sound every 2.5 seconds" don't get it. It's is not the same as a single continuous waveform oscillating at 0.189 Hz. There is a big difference between a continuous waveform at that frequency versus some joe blow making a click at 3 kHz for 250 ms duration every 2.5 seconds. No, it is not a set of pulses.

Re:But can he sing?

[mister_playboy]

Thanks. TFS's link had nothing more than some British woman's voice to offer.

He's got something special going on there, but saying he can go 2 octaves below a normal bass voice is a probably pushing it, let alone 8 octaves below the end of a piano's range.

0.187Hz? Consider it takes a 64 foot pipe and a lot of blower horsepower to produce 8Hz in an organ. There are only two such organs in the world so equipped, most big organs "settle" for 32 foot stops and 16Hz. I think his voice is plenty impressive without indulging in wild hyperbole.