The Distinctive Voice of Abraham Lincoln!
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One of the things that made Lincoln unique was his distinctive voice. Lincoln's voice was deep and gravelly, with a distinctive Kentucky accent. He was known for his ability to captivate audiences with his speeches, which were often delivered in a slow and measured manner. Despite his deep voice, Lincoln was not a particularly loud speaker, and he often spoke in a soft, conversational tone. Many people who heard Lincoln speak reported that his voice was both powerful and soothing, and that it had a calming effect on those who listened to him.
However, There are no known recordings of Abraham Lincoln's voice. The first audio recording technology, known as the phonograph, was not invented until after Lincoln's death in 1865. As a result, there are no recordings of Lincoln's voice, and all accounts of his speaking voice are based on the recollections of individuals who heard him speak.
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@likenovosti
11 ай бұрын
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@adbc6740
10 ай бұрын
And if i don't subscribe? Whatchu gonna do about it!?
@boiboi6202
10 ай бұрын
@@adbc6740no one would care because your a random
@robertbainter2349
8 ай бұрын
Why, because you’re deliberately untruthful?
@christopherthorkon3997
7 ай бұрын
I hope the updated video corrects the errors in this video.
First time I've ever heard his voice described as deep
@TheWhitehiker
Жыл бұрын
yes, it was high--this chap is wrong.
@BradleyCooper2698
Жыл бұрын
I always assumed it was, bcuz of how they depict him, it's deep but kind and soft
@TheWhitehiker
Жыл бұрын
@@BradleyCooper2698 he was always described as having a high voice-- Hollywood made it lower, until the film Lincoln..
@Hookah_Horns
Жыл бұрын
Because it's bullshit. I have no idea why someone would put out misinformation about Lincolns voice, but nothing surprises me anymore
@sleepycharlie673
Жыл бұрын
Right?
I heard Lincoln's voice was a high pitched squeaky sounding voice, similar to Theodore Roosevelt's voice.
@SeantheDracunyan76
9 ай бұрын
It does kinda surprising
@bryonhogg485
7 ай бұрын
All accounts say Lincoln had a high pitched voice . . .
@bryonhogg485
5 ай бұрын
Lincoln had a high pitched voice - Even as a young man - He had a commanding presence - Lincoln was often called upon to tell a story - That's what they had for entertainment back then - Lincoln was Postmaster in New Salem and he also ran the Lincoln and Berry store - Splitting logs - Surveying land - Lincoln was a superb storyteller - Also noted for telling stories while he rode the circuit practicing Law in Illinois - Lincoln was plagued by melancholy all his life - His Mother and Sister died relatively young - Father borderline abusive - Lincoln did not even attend his Father's funeral - Son Willie died at 11 - And Eddie died at 3 yrs of age - The Girl that Lincoln loved in New Salem = Ann Rutledge - Died at 22 - Lincoln said he told stories to offset his tendency to be sad or depressed . . .
@vagung
4 ай бұрын
And he spoke super fast, he delivered the Gettysburg address in just a couple minutes. These AI videos suck ****s.
@ccramit
4 ай бұрын
@vagung TBF, that speech wasn't very long anyways.
I believe he had a high pitched voice from accounts. So which is it? Deep or high pitched?
@thecuriouscollective
Жыл бұрын
I will look into this more. some reports are one way and some are the other, part 2 video coming soon.
@tonyschillaci7622
Жыл бұрын
That's what I have always read too.
@chrissyknowsitall5170
Жыл бұрын
I have read and watched many shows about Lincoln and have always heard he had a high pitch voice too.
@Egilhelmson
Жыл бұрын
If you can believe Hal Holbrook, one of his best imitators, he had an Orville Redenbacker type of voice. Just like George S. Patton. We like to believe that they had deep voices, but often they did not.
@johnmcmahon8513
Жыл бұрын
Exactly 💯 CORRECT !
Daniel Day-Lewis did his research before playing Lincoln in the eponymous movie. Contemporaries wrote that Lincoln's voice was higher in pitch than was expected on meeting him
@h8GW
5 ай бұрын
He did a fine job at mimicking voice of the documentaries that instilled my expectations, at an early age, of what Lincoln should sound like.
@jason200912
2 ай бұрын
Sounds like Jordan Peterson who is made fun of for having a Kermit the frog voice
@downbntout
2 ай бұрын
@jason200912 oh, not too much but yes, like Day-Lewis' Lincoln
Lincoln had the greatest speech writer in the World, himself
@cereal-killer4455
10 ай бұрын
The whole Gettysburg address is so eloquent, short and sweet
@medicman9411
7 ай бұрын
Also part of the wrestling hall of fame
@ThanksforcensoringmeYoutube
3 ай бұрын
@@cereal-killer4455you should listen to his speech when he took the office of president. It’s a tear-jerker if you like American Civil War stuff.
@marilyndee969
2 ай бұрын
I have heard he wrote the Gettysburg Address on an envelope on the train on the way there. He only spoke for a couple of minutes. Yet that speech is on a wall in DC, enshrined forever. Who remembers the previous speaker's two hour speech? No one. Lincoln's speech is etched in eternity.
There is a recording of a French woman singing in 1860. If that machine she was using reached the United States, we could have heard what President Lincoln sounded like.
@repairedgnome
Жыл бұрын
It was way less refined, you look at what the French were working on from the 1850s onward and even the most restored audio remains almost useless. Queen Victoria had her voice recorded but even that was barely intelligible, it is with Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) who’s audio can actually be heard and understood, his predecessor and successor would not get his voice recorded (contrary to popular belief) but McKinley onward would be very intelligible (less so with Harding however). My point is that in spite of being partially existent across seas, it’s current state and and many future iterations would not have made a difference. Admittedly the topics of Photographic, motion picture, and audio history are quite fascinating, really fun to research!
@woozy7405
Жыл бұрын
If we have audio recordings of Genghis Khan and King George why dont we have them of Lincoln
@OratorVeritatis
Жыл бұрын
@@woozy7405 We do?
@LazyartistLast
8 ай бұрын
@@OratorVeritatis maybe hese confusing King George III with King George IV. and Genghis Khan with Dschinghis Khan.
@OratorVeritatis
8 ай бұрын
@@LazyartistLast Yeah.
I think DDL probably nailed his voice to a t. The fact that he interviewed people born in the same area Lincoln was born is incredible attention to detail.
@valmacclinchy
Жыл бұрын
He's known for his research, so I agree with you about DDL.
@jaydubbyuh2292
11 ай бұрын
So, he went to Bostic, North Carolina were his biological father, Abraham Enloe conceived him with his white adolescent servant girl, Nancy? Then, he went just over the border into Kentucky to Thomas Lincoln's neighborhood? Thos. Lincoln was a "friend" of Enloe, and in need of a wife, being recently widowed, and took the pregnant Nancy off Enloe's hands & to himself as a wife, being financially subsidized by Enloe for a few months to offset Nancy's bearing Enloe's offspring. BTW, those that wd dispute the veracity of these facts ought to look at a photos & contemporary descriptions of Enloe & Lincoln. Abraham Enloe had little schooling but, was very quick-witted, also tall & lanky. Thos. Lincoln was short & squatty, and described as rather quiet & dull-witted. Little wonder that Lincoln avoided speaking-of, or acknowledging his origins. T
@alanbrown3172
8 ай бұрын
@@jaydubbyuh2292geez, do you know his penis size too. Damn
@robertbainter2349
8 ай бұрын
Well that’s also patently false, JayDubby. Thomas Lincoln was not recently widowed. He didn’t become a widow until Nancy died, and since that is Abraham’s mother, your story is bullshit, too.
This is untrue. An old man interviewed in the 1920s was a child attending the Gettysburg Address. He said that Lincoln's voice was high and squeaky but that the President was such a speaker that within a few moments of his beginning to address the crowd, everyone was enamoured and unconscious of his voice's tenor.
@astracontritus1209
Жыл бұрын
And then he picked up his axe and cut down a cherry tree like a true American patriot
Everything I’ve read says he had a high pitched voice which is how Daniel Day Lewis portrayed it in “Lincoln”
🙏 May President Abraham Lincoln be Blessed to a Better World & Realm ... 🕯🌷🌿🌎💜🕊
@palmettostaterailfan7019
17 күн бұрын
Read Thomas DeLorenzo, The Real Lincoln!
Based on what many experts have said, Lincoln’s voice was not “deep and gravelly” but rather higher pitched than one would have expected. Daniel Day-Lewis researched long and hard and eventually “found” Lincoln’s voice. He did an outstanding job.
Actually, he had a “a thin tenor, or rather falsetto, voice, almost as high-pitched as a boatswain's whistle.” so said the journalist Horace White.
Last photo 📸 of Lincoln ...best one I've ever seen ...says alot ...distinctive ...American
Most historians describe Lincoln’s voice as high
The most ever loving and respectful US President - Abraham Lincoln!
@Fat12219
23 күн бұрын
Mr Lecion
The first audio recording device was developed before 1860. Called the phonautograph. Patented in 1857. So it could have been done, but it was not widely recognized until Edison developed the phonograph.
@tinadavy3990
5 ай бұрын
Thx... good info
@bartsanders1553
4 ай бұрын
Until recently, the recording were not translatable to sound, as they only recorded lines on paper.
I heard he spoke in a tenor, but was indeed smooth and soothing once he got going.
My voice isn't that high pitched
@thecuriouscollective
Жыл бұрын
My bad Abe!
@raphaellimoges3089
Жыл бұрын
Wear did u obtain they elixire
@woozy7405
Жыл бұрын
Stay away from plays
@peterthornton2396
Жыл бұрын
Hahaha 😂
@arsen5479
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for everything, Mr. President; you are the greatest.
Almost every part of this is wrong. His high pitch and almost shrill voice, however, was not said to have been pleasant to the ears but it was many times remarked to have the surprising benefit of carrying across crowds in public speaking engagements. While his voice wasn't calming, his direct eloquence and story telling were said to be captivating.
@499marvin
3 ай бұрын
This guy got the Kentucky accent right, but that's about all.
Very older people who remembered Lincoln said actir Raymond Massey sounded very similar to him.
I always understood his voice was high pitched but pleasant.
I learned in my Civil War class that Lincoln’s voice was low and high pitched with a Kentucky accent
@StuMarston
Жыл бұрын
He left Kentucky when he was about seven years old. He would have lost the Kentucky accent when he got older.
@Beaneabean
Жыл бұрын
@@StuMarston maybe not if his parents had the accent.
@StuMarston
Жыл бұрын
@@Beaneabean Parents don't pass on the accent to kids.
@Beaneabean
Жыл бұрын
@@StuMarston Kids can pick up the accent if they hear it every day at home…… Thats like literally how language in general works for babies/kids
@StuMarston
Жыл бұрын
@@Beaneabean Yeah you're absolutely right. Take it easy.
One of the finest political figures and gentlemen ever lived; God bless you, great Abe.
@tinadavy3990
5 ай бұрын
I could 'hear' that... very mellow!
I always heard he had high-pitched voice.
Daniel day Lewis said he goes into a spiritual relationship with something that basically possesses him , like a force which takes over his mind body and soul ... which leads him to finding the right voice , and it makes sense because every single one of his movies all the directors praise him because he quite literally, becomes the character he plays , he's considered to be "holy grale of actors" said Martin Scorsese right after making gangs of new York
Four score and seven years ago……..I can hear Abraham Lincoln now.
Lincoln’s voice was high pitched accordingly to everyone who heard him speak.
My parents were born in 1917 and 1921, and one of the things that I found in a box, was a book that my mom had about Abraham Lincoln. It was published in 1865. It is an original edition. It is called “The Life Service Martyrdom and Funeral of Abraham Lincoln”. I think I might’ve just found a gem!
fact remains that his speeches and voice did not spare him. He had half the country hating him. And I side with the guy
Am I’m the only one who think he would sound like Morgan freeman?
@high4584
Ай бұрын
Nah I imagined that too
I’ve read that his voice was higher pitched, which was useful as it carried greater distance in a time when microphones weren’t invented.
Just watch Steven Spielberg's movie Lincoln. Daniel Day Lewis became Lincoln and his acting is perfect.
@rd9793
Жыл бұрын
My cousin is in that movie
@nekkoskrilla6750
Жыл бұрын
@@rd9793, one of my high school principals played an extra as a teacher in the movie, as well. Small world. 😉
@margo3367
9 ай бұрын
I think the whole movie was depressing. DDL isn’t even tall; he isn’t even American - playing the most iconic American ever. And Mary Lincoln, how she was portrayed? Don’t get me started.
Because of him we have all these problems today.
Lincolns words live forever
In retrospect, I sometimes think, Lincoln's getting shot, and dying comparatively quickly was... GOD saying, " You are sooooo tired of all this phenomenal RESPONSIBILITY, COME NOW, HOME TO MY GARDEN, YOU GREAT AND LOYAL SOUL ❤"... "YOUR JOB ON EARTH IS DONE"❤ "COME NOW TO YOUR MUCH-DESERVED ETERNAL REWARD" ❤.
My ancestors KNEW Lincoln, and described his voice as higher-pitched than one would expect of a man of his stature, and was easily recognized in a crowd. These men knew him as he rode the judicial circuit as well as when they served as delegates at political conventions.
THE GOAT!
I imagine every historical figure sounding like Gilbert Gottfried
He had a high pitched voice.
❤I love president Lincoln ❤I find him fascinating ❤
Lincoln’s voice was high-pitched, nasally and Western, almost to the point of being distracting until the listener grew accustomed to it. And having learned to speak outdoors, before large and noisy crowds, you bet he could be clearly heard from long distances. His voice has been compared to a trumpet.
Hearing him essentially greet us from the past is crazy.
Daniel Day Lewis, who played Lincoln in the movie Lincoln used a rather high toned voice based upon numerous recollections of LIncoln's voice being higher than normal; certainly not deep and gravely.
It was high pitched per Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “Team of Rivals.”
Probably sounded like Evan Baxter when Bruce Almighty was screwing with his voice!
Wow 🤩, God Bless him,Amen
The histories I’ve read all say he had a high voice. A journalist in 1860 NYC said it was so high that the audience began to laugh, but that subsided when he made important points. Nowhere have I ever heard his voice was deep and gravely.
I don’t think I’d describe his voice as being “deep” having seen (read) multiple accounts of what he sounded like.
The phonograph wasn’t the first audio recording invention. In fact there was rudimentary and experimental equipment in France that was recorded in 1863
Is this a joke? A deep and soothing voice? That's the opposite of every description of Lincoln's voice from his contemporaries.
@dh5380
3 ай бұрын
You’re reading too much
No one will ever truly know how Lincoln sounded because there’s no recording of his voice.
I saw a special about the civil war as a kid and the old timer Federal veteran ( in his 90's ) interviewed said, Lincoln sounded exactly like the actor Walter Brennan who was in movies as a young man , when the civil war veteran was still alive . Very interesting!
@katiejon17
Жыл бұрын
So cool. I’m looking up that actor now!
@sabrinaaamarion
Жыл бұрын
Daniel Day Lewis must have seen the same special because I looked up Walter Brennan and DDL be doing the same voice in “Lincoln” 😂
It want deep. It was high and nasally. A sharp contrast to his massive frame.
Waste of time- they didn’t even summon Abe from the dead so we could hear him speak 😤😤😤
There's an old wax cylinder recording from the 1860's in which he says the following: "The money cow prays upon the nation in times of peace & conspires against its citizens in times of adversity until the wealth is adjudicated in a few hands & the republic is destroyed It is more oppressive than monarchy, more demanding than autocracy & more selfish than burocracy"
Jit you got it all wrong, I hit puberty at the age of 42.
Lincoln was 6'2 without his iconic boots so he mustve been one tall cookie
@iknowheis
5 ай бұрын
I have always heard he was 6’4”
@ferguson8143
9 күн бұрын
He was 6ft 4in making him the tallest America president and Trump coming in at 3rd and James Madison was the shortest coming in at 5ft 4in
Actually it was the phonautogram in 1859.
Where did you hear that his voice was "deep and gravelly"?
Absolute gigachad of a president. The only one ever who wasn’t problematic.
@YungLilBoii
7 ай бұрын
Don't tell the left that. They wanna cancel him too. 😒
@cjaquilino
7 ай бұрын
Oh, the naivety. He literally thought black people were biologically interior and would've kept slavery to preserve the Union. He suspending civil rights. His treatment of indigenous folks was horrible, I could go on…
@itzamia
6 ай бұрын
The South needs a word with you
@JoelHern11
4 ай бұрын
@@itzamiaFort Sumter
@chadghanistan
4 ай бұрын
Yep, nothing at all...600,000 American lives later
I always thought he had HIGH PITCHED and squeaky voice. At least from every source I have ever read
I've read a number of accounts that Lincoln's voice was on the higher end of the scale. But then remember when he spoke in public there was no amplification, so he would have been raising his voice, and therefore the tone of the voice too. Only one president in my memory had a deep voice: Richard Nixon.
He died just 12 years before the invention of wax cylinders. It would be so cool to hear his voice
I don’t ever remember reading, or hearing that his voice was low. I think Daniel Day-Lewis got it the closest in his movie on Lincoln.
Interesting. My great-grandfather actually heard him speak once, and was quite shocked by how high-pitched and squeaky his voice was. In fact, when the Spielberg movie came out, I was amazed that Daniel Day Lewis had correctly adopted a high-pitched voice. The cheap and easier route would’ve been to use a deep voice, as if the Lincoln Memorial was talking.
I read he had a high pitched voice.
When I was 6 years old, I thought he was Count Dracula, until I went to proper School I learned he was Abe Lincoln 😀
Lincoln's son, Tod, was to become the CEO of a major USA RailRoad company; where, such was during the later 1800's and maybe into the early 1900's. Was the voice of this son ever recorded? If yes, IMO, that would potentially be a more reliable starting point for "learning" the characteristics of his father's voice.
He had a high voice
"There are no known recordings of his voice" "There are no recordings of his voice"
@randomtraveler9854
6 ай бұрын
The phonograph was originally invented in France and did not arrive in the United States until after Lincoln died.
He was known to have a very high and shrill sounding voice
Deep and gravely? Citation required. I’ve always read his voice was described as high pitched and “reedy” like Daniel Day Lewis in the movie Lincoln, which carried the more confidence he gathered.
@librarianlovesrick
5 ай бұрын
Oh my goodness I just wrote high pitched and "reedy" in my own comment. I even put quotes on reedy like you did! It just makes sense!
Why would Lincoln have a Kentucky accent .. he was from Illinois . Strange .
Hurray! I love Abraham Lincon!!!!
Bro had Morgan Freeman's voice.
I believe there was this live tv channel of someone with a audio tape of George Washingtons voice and he dropped the tape and it broke and they lost the audio and it was the only audio of his voice
Love how all these people saw it was high, like how do they know
@nekkoskrilla6750
Жыл бұрын
Just like that everyone is an automatic expert on the 16th President of America. Source : Trust me, bro.
@111851bob
9 ай бұрын
Read up on it.
Did anyone who heard Lincoln speak and suggest someone who was very similar to someone that is recorded?
"....voice was low and gravely.?" I've also heard that his voice was "high pitched." Which is correct?
We already know he sounded just like Morgan Freeman
*So basically, optimus prime?*
This just sounds like you described moist cr1tikle 💀
Lincoln had a deep and gravely voice, just like Patton, right?
If there is video of him talking, it is sometimes possible to measure the subtle vibrations in solid objects to re-create the real audio and thus the real voice! However the film might not be good enough. Its a thought anyway. Thanks.
I was taught that Lincolns' voice was on the high side.
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@S.TJohnsun-to3vc
2 ай бұрын
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If only there had been a young Frank Caliendo who heard Lincoln speak, he could've reproduced the voice years later and recorded it.
The next person who comments about how Lincolns voice was high-pitched wins the prize 🏆 🏆
I can’t believe that Abraham Lincoln was a GAF!!!!!!!!
Every historical description I've ever read said his voice was high, with a folksy, country accent! It was his humor & intelligence that won people over!
Great pics 📸 the last one: distinctive/distinguished/real character ...no film could capture his distinctive look ...real American look 🇺🇸
Ronald Reagan's voice; same. Soft , but powerful.
Literally none of his peers described his voice as deep.
heard his voice was high
@thecuriouscollective
Жыл бұрын
I will look into it more, I have seen that as well.
@keithstump1712
Жыл бұрын
Your video would have been more useful and interesting if you'd have included someone speaking with a "distinctive Kentucky accent". Who the hell knows what a Kentucky accent is??
@keithstump1712
Жыл бұрын
"No known recordings"?? implies there may have been secret, unknown recordings. And maybe movies??
@BotchuLeeSim
Жыл бұрын
@@keithstump1712Appalachian accent
@JD-re3cj
9 ай бұрын
@@thecuriouscollectivefake news why are you lying? It’s well documented that his voice was high pitched
I always read his voice was unusually high, and got "higher," when he was excited.
I thought Abe Lincoln's voice was high-pitched.
Absolutely FALSE! It has been well established that Lincoln had a high pitched voice. Please don't get your history, or anything else important from Tik Tok.
It was a high-pitched voice.
I have a boy in my class named Aberham and I tease him ALL the time😂So his voice sounds like him that’s your description 😂