Alto (disambiguation)

Alto (Italian for "high") is a musical term that has several possible interpretations.

Alto may also refer to:

Places

Brazil

• Alto, Teresópolis, a neighborhood in Teresópolis, Brazil

Italy

• Alto, Piedmont, a comune in the Province of Cuneo

United States

• Alto, Arizona, a ghost town in Santa Cruz County
• Alto, California, a former unincorporated community in Marin County
• Alto, Georgia, a town divided between Banks County and Habersham County
• Alto, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Howard County
• Alto, Michigan, an unincorporated community in Kent County
• Alto, New Mexico, an unincorporated community in Lincoln County
• Alto, Texas, a town in Cherokee County
• Alto, Wisconsin, a town in Fond du Lac County
  • Alto (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in Fond du Lac County

People

• Alto of Altomünster, a German saint
• Alto, spouse of Mr Percival, famous Australian pelican and film actor

Music

• Alto, a voice part in choral music, sung by either:
  • Alto or Contralto, the lowest female voice
  • Male alto or contratenor, the highest male voice
• Members of a family of instruments, including:
  • Althorn, the German name for tenor horn, a brass instrument
  • Alto saxophone, a woodwind instrument
• Alto, the French name for viola, a string instrument
• Alto clef

Technology

• Direct Fly Alto, a Czech ultralight aircraft
• Suzuki Alto, a Japanese car
• Maruti Suzuki Alto, an Indian version of the Suzuki Alto
• Xerox Alto, an experimental American personal computer
• ALTO (interbank network), in Indonesia
• ALTO (protocol), a protocol for applications to discover routing costs to different endpoints
• ALTO (XML), an open XML standard to describe OCR text and layout information of printed documents
• Air-launch-to-orbit, a method of launching rockets at altitude from a conventional horizontal-takeoff aircraft, abbreviated as "ALTO"

Other uses

• Nilfisk-Advance, a supplier of professional cleaning equipment has an Alto brand
• ALTO (film), a 2015 American-Italian mob comedy film
• Alto's Adventure, a video game
• Cirrus cloud#Relation to other clouds, where the prefix "alto-" is applied to cloud genera
• Alto (restaurant), a former restaurant in Manhattan, New York City

See also

• Alta (disambiguation)
• Aalto (disambiguation)
• El Alto (disambiguation)