Perfect Pitch

[Don Rose]

Hi Arlie:


>A great book my wife gave me for Christmas a while back is "My Life with
>the Great Pianists" by Franz Mohr.  He claims there is no such thing as
>perfect pitch even though some people claim to have it.  He says no one can
>really tell whether A is 440 or 438.

HOGWASH!

I could do it for years and know several others who can. I don't claim to have "perfect pitch".
Now that I am a piano tuner, I have lost this ability, though if I gave up tuning and went back
to playing I am sure the "ability" would return.

Don Rose drose@maple.net