[pianotech] Perfect Pitch (revisited)

Matthew Todd toddpianoworks at att.net
Mon Jul 5 22:23:52 MDT 2010


No telling, IMO, since it could have been a guess.  Maybe a test on more than one note, or, prep several notes and ask him if it sounds sharp or flat.


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--- On Tue, 7/6/10, Ed Foote <a440a at aol.com> wrote:


From: Ed Foote <a440a at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Perfect Pitch (revisited)
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Date: Tuesday, July 6, 2010, 2:40 AM


Gordon wrote:  



Anyway, I just said all that to reiterate the fact that there is no such thing as perfect pitch.  Relative pitch, yes.  Pitch memory, yes.  But perfect pitch, no.
How close does it have to be to be called "perfect"?   I ask because I once encountered a student oboe player that could hear the pitch of A as flat when it was, (according to my SAT), 1.5 cents flat.  This is close enough to "perfect" for me...



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