Perfect Pitch Revisited... LONG

[Richard Brekne]

I am wondering if this (no one able to tune a piano without reference..etc..) has as
much to do with the fact that pianos are not tuned at perfect pitches as it has to do
with anything else. Perfect Pitch, if indeed there is such a thing to the "perfect"
degree, would have to be checked and established by using something other then a piano
as a measuring device. Perhaps this is why folks who have close to perfect pitch often
have trouble tuning without great effort at learning properly, and even then have to
strive to not let their "pitch talent" get in the way

Richard Brekne
I.C.P.T.G.  N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway.

"Paul S. Larudee" wrote:

> Steven Lewis wrote:
> >
> > I thought you might all find this interesting.  I saved this from another newslist
> > several years ago, (I think, Pipe Organs).  I didn't save the author's name,
> > forgive me for not being able to attribute it to the rightful author.
> > She has a lot of interesting things to say about perfect pitch.  It's well worth
> > the long read.
> > Steven Lewis
> > Ft Worth, TX
>
> Steven,
>
> Please excuse the skepticism, but your attachment only seems to add to
> the mythology surrounding "perfect" or "absolute" pitch without
> furthering our knowledge of it.  It fails to address the point that no
> one is able to tune each note of a piano without reference to the other
> notes, that except for A440 the pitches are different from one piano to
> another, that different temperaments result in different pitches, that a
> capella and string ensembles change the pitch of a given note as they
> change keys within a given piece, etc.
>
> Paul S. Larudee, RPT
> Richmond, CA