My friend Nate has a child Noah with perfect pitch. From the age of 6 he's been able to identify notes played on the piano -- without seeing what you're playing. You can play any note and he'll tell you what it is without hesitation. He's 8 now and this gift is even more refined. When I was there 2 weeks ago, I tried it out. I played random clusters of notes and without being able to see the keyboard he could instantly pick out each note -- even dissonant clusters. He's also becoming a really good pianist and beginning to compose. Really amazing. Nate is an accomplished studio musician, so one assumes that genetics played a role. ... Then you add to the mystery that Noah's twin sister Sarah, while being a promising musician, does not share the same gift. Pretty wild, huh? Jim Wilson pianotech-request at ptg.org writes: > "Absolute pitch (AP), or perfect pitch, is the ability to name or > reproduce a tone without reference to an external standard". > ************** Great Deals on Dell 15" Laptops - Starting at $479 (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220433363x1201394532/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fad.doub leclick.net%2Fclk%3B212935224%3B34245239%3Bb) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090318/de9df607/attachment.html>
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