Perfect pitch...

[Richard Moody]

What is perfect pitch??

Perfect pitch to what?
     
A440?   Then if  you have perfect pitch, what is the pitch of middle C?
 
If you are playing in an orchestra,  and you tune from A440 and you are
playing in Ab, what is the pitch of C? Or suppose you play in G#, what is
the pitch of Middle C?  Suppose you are in Bb, and you play the major
second, what is the pitch of C? 

In each case the pitch of C will be differernt.  So much for "perfect"
pitch. 

Now you are going to tune the piano.  If you tune from Middle C and you
have four choices of temperaments,  the A above middle C commonly called
A-440 will have four different pitches.  Anybody with perfect pitch gonna
notice? 

	Ask a person with perfect pitch what temperament is, or the pitch of
keys, then  you will find how perfect they really are.  

	Now with perfect pitch, would someone recognize the piano was tuned to
442, or worse yet, 445 ? 

	It should be called pitch recognition.  How can people have perfect pitch
when music doesn't? 

rm.