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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=davidskolnik@optonline.net href="">David Skolnik</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="">Pianotech List</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 02, 2008 1:54
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: perfect pitch defined/Hughes
Reply</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>David -<BR>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 <I>do</I> need a new object of
our semantic tensions. <BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Regards
-<BR>David Skolnik<BR>Hastings on Hudson, NY<BR><BR>At 12:29 PM 7/2/2008, you
wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite"><FONT color=#000080
size=2>Thanks. I will forward it to the list.
<BR> <BR></FONT><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times" color=#000080
size=2>David</FONT> Love<BR>davidlovepianos@comcast.net<BR><A
href="http://www.davidlovepianos.com/"
eudora="autourl">www.davidlovepianos.com</A><FONT color=#000080>
<BR></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original
Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> David G. Hughes, RPT [<A
href="mailto:davidghughesrpt@comcast.net" eudora="autourl">
mailto:davidghughesrpt@comcast.net</A>] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 02,
2008 9:20 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Pianotech List<BR><B>Cc:</B>
davidlovepianos@comcast.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: perfect pitch
defined/Hughes Reply<BR></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times"> <BR></FONT><FONT color=#ff0000><B>David
Love,<BR></B></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times"> <BR></FONT><FONT
color=#ff0000><B> I LOVE you for composing and posting
this. I have always cringed upon hearing the term "perfect
pitch".<BR> Your definitions and explanations are
<I>perfect</I>. 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.<BR> 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.<BR> Many thanks.<BR></B></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times"> <BR></FONT><FONT
color=#ff0000><B> Dave Hughes, RPT <BR></B></FONT><FONT
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