Daniel McAdam Guide to Music

 

An Online Guide to
Classical Music and Composers

 


 

 Alto

alto strings

 ALTO (Ital. for “high’,), a musical term applied to the highest adult male voice or counter-tenor, and to the lower boy’s or woman’s (contralto) Voice.

The term is sometimes also applied to musical instruments, e.g., alto saxophone, and even to components of musical instruments, such as alto guitar strings.

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 

 


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