<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold"><SPAN class=710090221-13121999><STRONG>I'm up for the challange..name the = time and place.</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold"><SPAN class=710090221-13121999></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial Rounded MT Bold"><SPAN class=710090221-13121999><STRONG>Rook, who had to re-think and UNUSE = the gift in order to be able to tune pianos.</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> = owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]<B>On Behalf Of</B> Brian Holden<BR><B>Sent:</B> 13 December, 1999 1:18 PM<BR><B>To:</B> = Pianotech Forum<BR><B>Subject:</B> Perfect Pitch<BR><BR></DIV></FONT> <DIV><FONT size=2>Many people over the years have claimed to me that = they have perfect pitch. When I ask them to be more specific on this, they start = to cool off.  One person when asked what note I was playing on the piano = went cold on the idea altogether.  To me, having perfect pitch means = being able to detect or aurally produce a note within a maybe a few beats, = but no one has demonstrated to me that they can get that close.  I would = imagine that singers would be pretty accurate, but not perfect.  Any comments?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Brian Holden  = </FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>