Perfect Pitch

[Joe & Penny Goss]

And also is their perfect pitch, that is less than 2 cents off in Victorian
, Young, Coleman, ET, or reversed ET what ever temperment <G>
Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Brekne <richardb@c2i.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: Perfect Pitch


> Of course there would be a big problem with this definition if, for
> example, "perfect pitch" was demonstrated in a very young person who had
> never heard any music at all. Which probably has been done... grin. We
keep
> declaring so many facts about issues there is far from adequate research
> on. Fact is it is not certain that perfect pitch has anything to do with
> memory at all, tho it is certain that there is also something often
refered
> to as "pitch memory". Fact is we just dont know enough about these matters
> yet to give any difinitive answer.
>
> Richard Brekne
> I.C.P.T.G.  N.P.T.F.
> Bergen, Norway
>
> Tom Cole wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > 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
>
>
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