[pianotech] Perfect Pitch / Children

[JimWilsonian at aol.com]

> Some people can, but my understanding of the term is that it means you're 
> able to identify the pitch of notes you hear.   Having said that, I know one 
> studio singer who can sightread any piece of music with no pitch reference and 
> be "on key".   Of course, the level of accuracy needed to tune a piano is 
> another story (never mind the whole topic of having to compensate for 
> inharmonicity which has already been well covered in this thread.)
> 
Jim


> From: "CHARLES BECKER" <cbeckercpt at verizon.net>
> 
> Can people with "perfect-pitch" sing any note before they hear it?
> 
> 
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: JimWilsonian at aol.com
>   To: pianotech at ptg.org
>   Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:44 PM
>   Subject: Re: [pianotech] Perfect Pitch / Children
> 
> 
>   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".
> 
> 
> 




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