perfect pitch

[Robert Wilson]

--- Dave Nereson <dnereson@dimensional.com> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Robert Wilson <pianotechnicianuk@yahoo.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 1:47 AM
> Subject: re: perfect pitch
> 
> 
> > I would also imagine that for a musician perfect
> pitch
> > could be as much a curse as a blessing!
> >
> > Bob Wilson
> > London
> 
> Yes, sometimes.  It used to bug me to play piano at
> Sunday school, 'cause
> the piano was a quarter or half step flat.  I would
> have to do some curious
> "mindsets" to "pretend" I was hearing the key of C,
> when it was actually
> closer to B.
> Also, when I first started tuning and had to
> sometimes tune old pianos "to
> themselves", rather than raise pitch, it was hard to
> hit the right notes
> without looking at the keys, because I'd be playing
> one thing and hearing
> another.  But now, I'm so used to it that it doesn't
> matter.  However, it
> bothers me to play an out-of-tune piano more than
> when I wasn't a
> uner.  --Dave Nereson, RPT
> 
> 
> 

It's curious how the human brain can overcome these
things with time.  I used to play church organ and
once when called upon to play in an unfamiliar place I
was faced with an awful time lag - the pipes being
some distance from the console - the only way to
succeed is to forget what your are hearing, or your
playing slows down!  The regular organist had long
since adapted and was quite happy with it.

Bob Wilson
London.


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