Perfect Pitch

[Tom Cole]

Tony Caught wrote:
> 
Your statement "But to achieve a level of artistry in either requires a
high level of sensitivity to the audible spectrum and perfect pitch is
an
aspect of this sensitivity." may be correct for many musicians but
pianists
and piano tuners (particularly the good ones) understand how
inharmonicity
changes the perfect pitch (chromatic) and that PP must be ignored in
favour
of the harmony of the harmonics.
> 

PP is not an absolute, mathematical pitch reference, a la Braid-White's
famous chart, but a composite recording in the brain made by a
hodgepodge of instruments heard over one's lifetime which, with any
luck, were reasonably in tune. If, for example, you've listened to
nothing but a well-tuned, equal-tempered piano your whole life, then
your "perfect pitch" will consist of stretched octaves and smoothly
progressing thirds, sixths and tenths, and other instruments and
temperaments might sound out of tune to you.
-- 
Thomas A. Cole, RPT
Santa Cruz, CA
mailto:tcole@cruzio.com