Hi Forgive this old dude if I have told this before but a 72--it comes with the territory. I tell most people I'm 27 which is 72 spelled backwards. For some reason they don't believe it. One of my favorite stories about my learning days with Dr. Wm Braid White was when a young chap, (like myself) came in to his school on his first day. One of the first things out of his mouth to Dr. White and the rest of the students was, "I am going to be good at tuning because I have Perfect Pitch" To that Dr. White says in his thick English accent, "So you have perfect pitch do you. Well, lets just see how peeerfect your piiiitch is" With that we all followed them back to one of the rooms where Dr. White had something like a Xylophone with 10 steel bars which were 435 through 445. Dr. white proceeded to hit each note and he would then ask the student "what was that note" to which the student answered "A". This went on through all ten bars. At the end of striking the bars, Dr.White turned to the student and said with quite a bit of sarcasm "You don't have perfect pitch, you were only right one time. The rest of those notes haven't been named" and that was the end of that tune. For what it is worth, this Xylophone was what Dr. white used to teach us what the beat rates sounded like. Forr instance, striking 435 along with 443 generated 8 beats a second which were what the interval F3 to D4 would produce. Ron May -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090505/14bd80ea/attachment.html>
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