And, if it wasn't a guess, it would still be relative, since he told you the note was flat. But him telling you how flat it was, now that would be perfect. TODD PIANO WORKS Matthew Todd, Piano Technician (979) 248-9578 http://www.toddpianoworks.com --- 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... Ed Foote RPT http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100705/ed3e7b1b/attachment.htm>
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