Perfect Pitch

[Clyde Hollinger]

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Friends,

        Pitch memory is probably a better name.  Two persons come to
mind when we get on this subject.  When I was in college and sang with a
group, we would ask one of the members to give us the pitch.  She could
do it, but she was always flat.  I just assumed the piano in her home
wasn't tuned to pitch and she learned off of that.
        When I was a high school choir director one guy would start
laughing during rehearsal.  I would ask what was so funny and he would
say, "We are going so flat!  Can't you hear it?!"  I couldn't, not the
way he could.  He is now a professional cellist with the Malaysia
Philharmonic, and I'm... oh, never mind.  <G>

Regards,
Clyde Hollinger, RPT

Brian Holden wrote:

>  Many people over the years have claimed to me that they have perfect
> pitch. When I ask them to be more specific on this, they start to cool
> off.  One person when asked what note I was playing on the piano went
> cold on the idea altogether.  To me, having perfect pitch means being
> able to detect or aurally produce a note within a maybe a few beats,
> but no one has demonstrated to me that they can get that close.  I
> would imagine that singers would be pretty accurate, but not perfect.
> Any comments? Brian Holden

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