[pianotech] Perfect Pitch / Children

[Robert Wilson]

That's called 'Tuning the customer!

Bob.


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> Same thing with me,
> although not a tuning
> thing.  Ann Shine (Shein?) was here for a guest artist
> recital.  We
> listened to the piano....she was not pleased!  I moved
> the piano about
> three inches at the front of the piano toward the seats and
> she says, "yes,
> that really sounds better now".  Go figgur.
>  the stage manager
> and I just smiled and told her, "it probably has
> caught the best acoustics
> of the room!"  She agreed...and the show went on!
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> I've had other weird
> things come from
> picky players as well, including the below blog, or just
> pretending to
> move something, taking the action out and moving a couple
> of jacks or rep
> springs, or what have you, and they say.."Oh, it DOES
> sound better
> now! How you did that is amazing!!!"  Again a
> grin
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> Paul
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> Ryan
> Sowers <tunerryan at gmail.com>
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> Subject
> Re: [pianotech]
> Perfect Pitch / Children
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> I've wondered for quite some time about
> the limits of
> so-called perfect pitch. I've tried to research this on
> the internet and
> not gotten very far in the past. Can individuals with a
> high degree of
> this ability discriminate between 440 and 440.5? I imagine
> this has been
> researched, and it would be really interesting to know how
> refined this
> ability can be. 
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> Franz Moore told a story about Horowitz complaining that
> the pitch of the
> piano was off before a concert. Franz checked it and it was
> dead on. Nevertheless,
> he pretended to tune for a half hour or so and told the
> Maestro to try
> the piano. Ah! Much better! was the reply. 
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> Along the same line a tuning buddy of mine was tuning in
> the low bass for
> a music teacher who claimed to have perfect pitch. After
> tuning a note
> the teacher stopped him and said "are you sure
> that's correct?"
> My friend said "I'll move it a bit and you tell me
> where you think
> it sounds best." He put his lever on the pin and
> before he had even
> moved the pin the teacher said "There! That's
> it!". Of course
> my friend had not changed the pitch even slightly.
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>  There is an interesting gray area between externally
> perceived phenomenon
> and internally generated phenomenon: i.e. the imagination.
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> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:44 AM,
> <JimWilsonian at aol.com>
> wrote:
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> 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?
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> Jim Wilson
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> pianotech-request at ptg.org
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> "Absolute pitch (AP),
> or perfect pitch,
> is the ability to name or
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> reproduce a tone without reference to an external
> standard".
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> Ryan Sowers, RPT
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