> My sister is an alto. In Spanish, and maybe some other languages, that means "high." Yet an alto sings at a lower pitch than a soprano. Why do they call a lower pitched voice "high?"
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Beats me. I'm still trying to figure out why Starbucks has three sizes of coffee, and the two smallest ones have names that mean "big".

Maybe they decided that someone who could sing pretty high was an "alto", and then they realized that other people could sing even higher and they had to come up with another name.

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