[pianotech] Perfect Pitch and Temperaments

[Allan]

Why say that?

Wikipedia returns: Absolute pitch (AP), or perfect pitch, is the ability to
name or reproduce a tone without reference to an external standard.[1]

Follows a very in depth exposé about perfect pitch, maybe that would answer
your questions. 

We are NOT left without "no definition".

I don't have perfect pitch, I wish I had. My son has it and he was very
fortunate to have very solid ear training where the "perfect pitched" were
grouped together and given a special program to take this ability into
consideration, not letting them go lazy with it, and provide them with the
obligation to develop nevertheless a good "relative" way of hearing the
relationships ("relative pitch"). (Extraordinary teacher Luce Beaudet at
Université de Montréal)

Regards,

Allan


-----Original Message-----
From:  david at piano.plus.com
Sent: 17 mars 2009 11:48
Subject: Perfect Pitch and Temperaments

Marc, your anecdote is certainly interesting. But we are still left with
the problem of no definition of terms, when people talk about "perfect
pitch".  It would be helpful, I think, if you could complete the following
sentence:

"My definition of perfect pitch is the ability to.............."

Best,

David.