[CAUT] Pitch recognition

[David M. Porritt]

Phil:

I do think there is something about A.  Those of us who start with an A
fork, or in the case of a conductor who starts everything tuning at A.  I
don't know that this conductor would recognize C or F at 2.71-cents sharp
but I think that A finally gets drilled into our brain.  

It's just an interesting phenomena. 

dave

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David M. Porritt, RPT
dporritt at smu.edu
 
-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Phil
Bondi
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 2:23 PM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Pitch recognition

David, I have Perfect - Pitch - Recognition, or 
whatever this group decides to call it!..and I 
guess my level of 'perfection' must not be as 
good as that Wind Ensemble's hearing. I 
seriously doubt I could hear the difference 
between 440.00 and 440.69.

That's less than 1 cent.

440 vs.442 - I'll hear that..but 440 vs.440.69?

I doubt it.

-Phil Bondi(Fl)