Words similar to octave

Example sentences for: octave

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The 88 is designed by Henry Kloss, a hi-fi legend who made his mark (with the KLH speakers of the 1950s and the Advents of the '60s) by figuring out how to manipulate electronics so that a speaker sounds smooth from octave to octave.
This is elegantly put and close to inarguable: If Beethoven had a five-and-a-half octave instrument at his disposal, the music he wrote for it probably would demand the highest and the lowest notes of that five-and-a-half octave span.
He drops his voice an octave and bellows lines like "Drag your pimply ass in here and say hello to the guys--show some class f'r chrissakes" in a way that transcends caricature.
Then his voice drops an octave or two, and he becomes more subdued.
As Emmet Ray, the fictional 1940s jazz guitarist in Woody Allen's unexpectedly delectable Sweet and Lowdown , he lifts his voice about an octave and wears a small waxed mustache as if it were a fancy hood ornament.