et al; I promise I won't say anything else re: Perfect pitch, and in spite of what Phil thinks I have gotten a lot of work done today. :-) But if any on the list desires to research the subject further there are some sites below on the subject and included within these sites there are enough links to keep you busy for many, many days. Jim Bryant (FL) --------------------------------- Top 10 of 722,258 matches. View [ titles only ] [ by web site ] Search Amazon.com for books about perfect pitch. 76% Untitled more like this... URL: http://www.mleestonefineprints.com/www.perfectpitch.org/stud... Summary: We hope to devise new strategies for the genetic investigation of behavioral traits in humans and learn more about the mechanisms through which the environment can influence brain development. In such populations it is likely that individuals with a given inherited trait will have inherited the same genetic predisposition; this likelihood makes it more straightforward to identify the. 76% Re: perfect pitch more like this... URL: http://www.vocalist.org/html/9710/msg00611.html Summary: Hi everyone, > << I'd like to hear from those who do have perfect pitch and hear how it > helps them, if it does. 76% Untitled more like this... URL: http://sneezy.mika.com/KlarinetLogs/1994/10/000181 Summary: edu" Subject: Re the hearing of perfect pitch Dick Williams asks if a person with perfect pitch hears A at 440 or 413 or what? Therefore, if a person with perfect pitch hears what he or she is told is an A, then that person will remember what that pitch was and, eventually, that pitch will become instantaneously recallable on demand, no matter what its vibratory qualities were at the time the. 75% "Dual" Absolute Pitch more like this... URL: http://users.southeast.net/~habedd/dualabs.html Summary: Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 18:53:39 EST Sender: Early Music List From: David Wilson Subject: Perfect pitch I missed most of the Dan Korem thread, but I just read a post from Kim Plofker about perfect pitch at various pitch levels. Not being blessed/cursed with the ability/affliction myself, I can't speak from personal experience, but I've known several people with perfect pitch who were studying. 75% January 1998: PotSW: the perfect pitch more like this... URL: http://www.progrock.org/kansas/Archive/98_01/0572.html Summary: Perfect pitch requires right genes, early music training,. The right genes plus early music training, a study. Search Tip: Click on "more like this" when you want a list of documents similar to a document you really like. 74% Re: perfect pitch more like this... URL: http://www.vocalist.org/html/9710/msg00297.html Summary: Carol wrote: >Something else I discovered at a rehearsal one day: while I sightread easily >and love to do it, I was met with utter disaster when the conductor asked the >soprano section (of which there were 5 including myself) to read through a >Bach cantata -- a whole step lower than was written. Sightreading Bach Cantatas, especially the running 16ths, is highly challenging. 74% PERFECT PITCH AND SUNDRY SYNDROMES more like this... URL: http://www.knowledge.co.uk/frontiers/sf102/sf102b07.htm Summary: Writing in response to a report in Science by G. Schlaug concerning the brain asymmetry observed in musicians with perfect or absolute pitch* (SF#99), O. Sacks expands the domain of the phenomenon to include other human talents. Perfect pitch is also common among those with Williams syndrome, which he defines as: "a -- syndrome which predisposes to hyperacusis and exceptional. 74% Untitled more like this... URL: http://shrike.depaul.edu/~abreeden/stand.htm Summary: . There are a large amount of different opinions on whether or not perfect pitch is something a person born with or something a person can only learn. Remembering the travelling-wave theory identifying pitch determination with distance along the cochlea canal, [Some scientists think that being able to hear different pitches has to do with the distance along the partition in the cochlea canal. 74% UCSF Absolute Pitch Survey more like this... URL: http://www.perfectpitch.org/survey.html Summary: None Available 74% Perfect Pitch more like this... URL: http://www.galaxy.net/~k12/sound/perpitch.shtml Summary: What do you think would happen to the pitch if you had less air (more water) in the bottle with water? Will the pitch be: ___ Higher ___ Lower Fill the empty bottle 3/4 of the way full with water so that it now has less air that the other bottle. ---------end----------
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