Perfect Pitch

[Tony Caught]

Tom

I accept this as your opinion, my opinion is simple PP is PP. Stretched
Pitch is Stretched pitch. In small pianos the stretch is great. In large
pianos the stretch is not so great.

If PP is not an absolute why is it called PP ?

I think that what you are referring to may be called relative pitch.

Your analogy below says to me that PP to a Pianist with a small piano is the
same as PP to the Pianist with the large piano is the same as PP to a
violinist or PP to an organist.

So all these people get together and say they have got perfect pitch.  Who
is right if they did as you suggest when they check themselves out and find
that they are all different.

I will accept Braid-White's famous chart as being correct.

Tony Caught  caute@accessnt.com.au

----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Cole <tcole@cruzio.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 15 December 1999 4:11
Subject: Re: Perfect Pitch


> 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