Tone Deaf

[Carl Teplitski]

Sept.6/00 ( my pc calender & clock defective )

Have had personal experience with both subjects, people who
are color blind, and others who are pitch blind.
I believe the factors are similar to someone who hears a tune
and can duplicate it reasonably well aurally.
Ask a customer to play her piano after you tuned it, and she has to get
music because she can,t play anything without.   I can play
jingle bells without music.   I can,t play it with !.
           Wonder how she dances.
We have an autistic fella in our area who is also blind. Plays piano,
organ, accordion and maybe a kazoo. Prefers classical music.
      " SPLAIN dat"
Sure is a lot of stuff going on out there I don,t understand !

Carl
JIMRPT@AOL.COM wrote:

> In a message dated 9/06/2000 12:16:19 AM, Martin wrote:
>
> <<But what's even more inconceivable to me is being  tone-deaf.
>  How is this possible?>>
>
> Martin;
>  Think color blindness. Being "tone deaf" is not unlike being color blind in
> that the mechanism which allows us to hear either is not able to
> differentiate between discrete tones or........ it does and our 'processing'
> of these tones does not perceive the differences. "Color Blind" persons vary
> as to the degree of color blindness and the colors they are "blind" to and
> "tone deaf" persons also vary in their degree of "deafness" and the
> frequencies that are affected.  As in being "color blind" some persons have
> total lack of color recognition, some persons recognize certain colors and
> not others and some see only in shades of gray, so there are varying degrees
> of "tone deafness" also.
>   Tone recognition is a 'learnable' skill, for most of us, that we take for
> granted but we also must realize that there are those of us who are
> "different abilitied" and can no more recognize, or carry, a tone than the
> proverbial "teaching a donkey to fly" thingee.
> My thoughts.
> Jim Bryant (FL)