-----Original Message----- From: Vanderhoofven <dkvander@clandjop.com> To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org> Date: Saturday, December 06, 1997 11:30 AM Subject: Perfect Pitch, ET vs. WT, tone color >Dear Friends, > >I received an advertisement in the mail fram a man named David L. Burge. >He has a course on audio tapes that he claims can teach anyone to have >perfect pitch. > >Quote from advertisement: "I began to notice faint "colors" within the >tones. Not _visual_ colors, but colors of _pitch_, colors of _sound_." >Any replies to my random thoughts are welcome. > >David A. Vanderhoofven, RPT >Joplin, Missouri, USA >e-mail: dkvander@clandjop.com I remember a long thread a while back on the rec.music.makers.piano newsgroup. Perhaps you can go to www.dejanews.com and search for the subject. As for what benefit perfect pitch can give a tuner . . . I say none. I would be willing to bet that a random note set to a person with perfect pitch would still be at least a few cents off where it should be, ET notwithstanding. I even wonder what it can do for a player if you have to go through a great deal of trouble to "learn" it. Just put the time into learning the scales and sight reading (I should talk! Everything I play is from memorizing fingering! Drives me nuts!). Glenn.
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