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How many octaves are there in the human audible-frequency range?.

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Answer:

ten octaves

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer. One octave, corresponding to a halving of the upper frequency limit. Although human hearing covers a range of, say, ten octaves at best, seven of these octaves cover the bottom eighth of the range, from 20 Hz up to 2500 Hz, which corresponds roughly to the pitch range from E♭0 to E♭7 (Figure 26).

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