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octave
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octave as in:  has a four-octave range

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  • All this stuff"—her voice mockingly rose an octave—" 'Mary Carson made him do it.†  (source)
  • But then the barking moved up an octave and turned into yapping.†  (source)
  • 'Someone's dead,' said Malfoy and his voice seemed to go up an octave as he said it.†  (source)
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  • Then rising an octave like "The Star-Spangled Banner": "God stirred up the holy spirit of a man named Daniel!"†  (source)
  • Dell found his voice rising two octaves.†  (source)
  • "A man named Seth Hubbard," Stillman said, an octave higher but still not loud enough to draw the attention of anyone in the office of the Ford County Chancery Clerk.†  (source)
  • My feet shuffled and my voice lowered a few octaves.†  (source)
  • Two of the waterspouts were close now, their sound a blast of every octave and pitch as they ground their way through the atmosphere.†  (source)
  • Of course not; just shifted voder a couple of octaves.†  (source)
  • His voice goes up an octave.†  (source)
  • My voice had risen its usual uncontrolled octaves, becoming an epicene mezzo-soprano.†  (source)
  • The voice from the radio—it had dropped an octave, altered pitch, slowed and lengthened measurably—was now that of someone's wayward uncle confiding the secrets of his golf game; now it miraculously glided through a tongue twister; now it suddenly sensed great depths of meaning in an ordinary double play.†  (source)
  • His voice was deep, yet strangely soft and lilting; like the bush boy's, only several octaves lower.†  (source)
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