Oh no, here's goes the absolute pitch debate again. Nobody's perfect, or "absolute"; we're human. Take an ETD to her ten times in a row and ask her to sing or hum an A or a C or any other note and see if she's right on every time. I'll bet she's not. Some people come very very close, but they, alas, do not have precision-calibrated signal generators or frequency counters in their brain. "Absolute pitch" and "perfect pitch" should be banned from the English language and be replaced with "very good pitch recognition." The prof/cellist elsewhere in this thread is one in a million. --David Nereson, RPT -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org]On Behalf Of Gregor _ Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 8:29 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: absolute pitch I have a customer with an absolute pitch. She called me for a tuning and complained about one key (E6) which sounded for her more like the F6. When she told me that, I had no idea about her absolute pitch. I tuned the piano and she still complained about that E6. I wondered what she meant: how can an E sound like F? I checked the temperament again and the octaves, fourths and fiths as well. Everything perfect. Then she told me about her absolute pitch. Aha! I tuned the E for her as she told me (too flat, to sharp, oh no, now it´s correct......). The result were inacceptable intervals! I told her that and tuned like I felt it´s o.k. Seems that even an absolute pitch has fluctuations. I always wondered if an absolute pitch can differentiate between 440 and 439 Hz and if it´s related to mood, weather or so. Gregor _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
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