Hi there boys and girls... ran into another absolute pitch experience today. First one I have had a chance to talk to for a while and I jumped at the opportunity to ask them about a couple things that have been bothering me about this.. I asked the customer how he thought he was able to identify tones and chords. He said immediatly he could tell by their colour.. especially chords.. I said of course that this made no real sense as colour in the traditional sense did not exist really in a ET tuned piano. He simply said "nonsense" and snikered at me a bit as if he had revealed some ignorance on my part. So I pointed out that the only really difference between a major chord starting here or one starting there was the quickness of beating , and that that increased evenly as one goes up the scale. He sorta looked at me with a confused look and said... "whats that got to do with it". This fellow knows a bit about beating and whatnot... tho he knows nothing about how pianos are tuned, one way or the other... so he says. He says he has heard and played on a few pianos tuned in various HT configurations, and still says that the colour of keys remain the same... they just get a bit differerent "tint".. thats what he said... "tint" Anyways... I thought I'd throw this one out there as I thought it was it was interesting . -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway
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