Klarinet Archive - Posting 000379.txt from 2003/08

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] key of C ear training
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 05:55:50 -0400

Good point, Noel - clearly "perfect" pitch is to some degree relative to
a standard, and so has to be learned - though there may well be an
innate propensity or facility for developing it.
Roger S.

In message <001f01c36244$80e81f20$9998c593@-----.org writes:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Hobby [mailto:jhobby@-----.net]=20
> Sent: 14 August 2003 03:51
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] key of C ear training
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> A couple of points.
>
> First, everyone I've known that had perfect pitch (an obviously small
> number) has found it to be more of a problem than a help. If you have
> perfect pitch, the note you see is the note you hear. So if you're =
> playing
> Bb clarinet, your eye and your ear "see" two different pitches. This =
> is
> amplified if you play A or Eb clarinet. Only if you play C> >clarinet =
> would
> the written note and the heard note be the same.
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>
> >>>>>>>< SNIP >
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>
> I was wondering - what happened to people with perfect pitch when =
> Concert
> pitch changed? Were they still perfect, or did they have to relearn =
> their
> perfection?
>
> Noel Taylor
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