absolute pitch/RicB

[Ric Brekne]

Hi Tom

Grin.... Nice analogy, and me gets yer point as it were for sure.  That 
said... the range of colours that fall into <<green>> is quite a bit 
wider then what I imagine when I think of what folks often and popularly 
refer to when the term <<absolute pitch>> is tossed around.

I have no doubt or problems with the claim that one can identify within 
a few cents any given tone.  Much less a problem indentifying chords... 
heck this latter was standard ear training when I attended college.

Its just when the term starts getting taken too far down the road of 
real <<absolute>> I start getting a bit uneasy with the term.

Back to your analogy tho... how far to you have to adjust your colour 
palette to account for historical temperments then ? Does Aqua Blue get 
into the mix ? :)

Cheers
RicB

    Richard,
      Think of it this way.  Is there a perfect green?  How can someone
    identify that color as green when it's not always the same exact
    color?  Sometimes it's lighter than others and yet they're still all
    green.  

      Can you get past that?
       
      Tom Sivak
       
      Richard Brekne <ricbrek at broadpark.no> wrote:

    One proplem I can't get past with this perfect pitch concept is that
    there is in reality no perfect tones that correspond. Not even all
    that close when it comes right down too it.

    Cheers
    RicB