perfect pitch

[Tvak@AOL.COM]

I'd like to look at this "perfect" pitch argument from one other angle.

Those of you who expect more from the person with perfect pitch, I say it is 
unreasonable to ask someone to hear gradations of pitch finer than that which 
is used in the medium in which it exists.  (i.e., music.) 

My wife's paycheck varies by a penny every third week, because her annual 
salary, divided into weeks, doesn't come out evenly.  This "perfect" pitch 
argument would demand that the computer pay her that 2/3rds of a cent each 
week, instead of rounding it up and down, even though she wouldn't be able to 
spend it because it is a gradation of money which is smaller than used in 
practice.

Like the computer, the person with perfect pitch rounds it up or down so that 
it can be labeled, named, or recognized as a familiar entity that already 
exists in the musical vocabulary.  

I would suspect that Indian musicians with perfect pitch might recognize 
quarter steps due to the inherent nature of the music of their culture.  

Tom Sivak