<html> <body> David - This could get complicated, as there is yet another David who has already posted on this topic, but I'll brave it. I share David Hughe's appreciation for you lucid post and would be quite interested in additional information about the study you mention. While the nomenclature might indeed be imperfect, it tends to get us into the ballpark, wherein the specifics are still being debated.  On the other hand, now that we've pretty much settled on RPT (for now), maybe we do need a new object of our semantic tensions.  There is another recognized expert on this (and many other) aspects of the psychology of sound who is at UCSD named Diana Deutsch.   <a href="http://deutsch.ucsd.edu/" eudora="autourl"> http://deutsch.ucsd.edu/</a>    There are numerous articles she has written on the subject, the most recent of which seems to be the one written in 2006 in Acoustics Today. Regards - David Skolnik Hastings on Hudson, NY At 12:29 PM 7/2/2008, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""> Thanks.  I will forward it to the list.    David Love davidlovepianos@comcast.net <a href="http://www.davidlovepianos.com/" eudora="autourl"> www.davidlovepianos.com</a> -----Original Message----- From: David G. Hughes, RPT [<a href="mailto:davidghughesrpt@comcast.net" eudora="autourl"> mailto:davidghughesrpt@comcast.net</a>] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:20 AM To: Pianotech List Cc: davidlovepianos@comcast.net Subject: Re: perfect pitch defined/Hughes Reply   David Love,       I LOVE you for composing and posting this. I have always cringed upon hearing the term "perfect pitch".     Your definitions and explanations are perfect. Permit me one suggestion to the entire musical community: we drop the term perfect pitch and substitute it with "pitch (or note) recognition". This is, after all, what we're talking about. There never has nor will there ever be anything perfect about musical pitch.     I don't know how to post messages to the PTG list. If you could do so for me with this response I'd be most appreciative.     Many thanks.       Dave Hughes, RPT  </blockquote> </body> </html>