<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: "tone deaf"</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <BLOCKQUOTE>Tone deafness is a real phenomenon. See this very interesting s= ite: http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/jan/tonedeaf/020116.toned= eaf.html </BLOCKQUOTE> || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| jason kanter * piano tuning * piano teaching bellevue, wa * 425 562 4127 * cell 425 831 1561 orcas island * 360 376 2799 || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| <BLOCKQUOTE>From: "Dave Nereson" <dnereson@dimensional.= com> Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 03:17:32 -0600 To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Subject: "tone deaf" </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE><TT>    I hate it when customers claim to be &qu= ot;tone deaf" or to have "tin ears". They can hear the phone ring and somehow distinguish that from the doorbell= , but they're "tone deaf"?  They can tell that one note's high= er or lower than another, and they can distinguish "Amazing Grace" from "Loui= e, Louie", but they're "tone deaf"?  I bet some of them even sing reasonabl= y well and somewhat in tune at church or in the shower, but still claim to be "to= ne deaf".   In fact, I'd venture to say there's no such thing a= s being deaf only to tones, but being able to hear everything else.  I suppose what= they really mean is that they can't name a note when they hear it -- but that's<= BR> pitch recognition, not "tone deafness".   --David Neres= on, RPT, Denver </TT></BLOCKQUOTE><TT> </TT> </BODY> </HTML>