Hi Keith, Add this to your records. I have a client whose piano as a child was tuned about 65 cents flat--yet she has ambsolute pitch for an A-440 tuning. This would certainly indicate to me that there is also a "genetic" version of perfect pitch, as she would not have "learned" A440 from a flat piano. I also have a client who has profound hearing loss (about 30% hearing, and nothing at all above f6) who has perfect pitch. She is quite a good piano instructor. I have done limited testing of 4 persons with perfect pitch. All of them "lost it" at about 33 cents flat or 33 cents *sharp* of A440. As the pitch changed away from 440 each of them listened *harder* to the note before identifying it. At 08:27 AM 9/5/00 -0500, you wrote: >>... on my machine they are all flat by 3-4 cps. >>12 cents off is perfect? But I wonder if someone with >>really perfect pitch would recognize this?... ---ric > >Wondering won't do it, Richard. I have no doubt that some with >absolute/perfect pitch would easily know the cents discrepancy you mention >exists, while there would be some who would not, yet still would be able to >identitify the correct note/tone. > >My position is that 12 cents off A440 doesn't negate the note/tone from >being in the domain of A440. Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. Tuner for the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts drose@dlcwest.com http://donrose.htmlplanet.com/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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