Words similar to octave

Example sentences for: octave

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Each of the sixty-two Heath Robinsons—Rube Goldbergs to you Americans—here illustrated conceals a miniature harmonica (diatonic and with the range of a full octave).
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.
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.
Then his voice drops an octave or two, and he becomes more subdued.
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.