[pianotech] OFF topic

[Porritt, David]

Les:

This is common as we age and there's some research trying to figure out the reason.  I don't hear things as a half-step flat I'm just not as accurate as I once was.  I can normalize my pitch sense as soon as I hear and verify a tone, and I'm much more accurate with the sound of a piano than I am with say an organ or a clarinet.  Before I turned 50 it was much better.

dp

David M. Porritt, RPT
dporritt at smu.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Leslie Bartlett
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 9:09 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: [pianotech] OFF topic

I tuned today for a musician, in her 60's, outstanding as pianist, 
organist, composer.  She said she had very good pitch in younger years, 
but now she hears everything a half step flat. Playing a few notes on 
piano, and sure enough, playing an E she heard E-flat, and so forth.

Anyone had experience with this king of thing?
les bartlett