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UPDATE - 28 March

I’ve been thinking quite hard about this performance. They’re singing it in F, which is a pretty high key for a tune like ‘Danny Boy’, at least if you’re a tenor like Swedish Chef. It’s much less of a problem for Animal, who’s a bass and can just drop down the octave. The structure is carefully fixed so that neither of them has to go really high.

The interesting case is Beaker. His high note is a top A. Not a tenor top A (which, in treble clef, is written as the A above the C above middle C, but in terms of pitch is actually the A above middle C, an A4), but a true top A, an A5.

Now you could argue that he’s singing falsetto. But notice how, at about the 1:19 mark when Chef and Animal join in, they have to cover for the fact that Beaker is struggling to get down to his middle D, which should be a piece of cake for any tenor.

The natural conclusion? With a range of C4 –> A5, Beaker is a soprano treble. Seems some of the experiments in Muppet Labs are more sinister than we thought…

Update #2

I’ve just been reminded that we should more correctly describe Beaker as a treble, because he is …apparently… male.

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