Klarinet Archive - Posting 000408.txt from 2003/08

From: "Customer Service" <eclef@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Perfect Pitch
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 04:47:01 -0400

Every pitch calebrated within a few cents as you understnad for example A
from 438 to 446 as very common in opera and ballet orchestras in the Europe
but stil in the range of note A more o less considere either Ab or A#
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Montoro" <rmontoro@-----.net>
Subject: [kl] Perfect Pitch

> I don't have perfect anything, though I have acted the perfect fool on
> occasion.
>
> Mention of people with perfect pitch has noted that they can name a
> note or a simultaneity of notes upon hearing. Apparently they name the
> notes with reference to A=440.
>
> I believe that A=440 is an artificial definition of recent
> construction, so why do people with perfect pitch relate to it? Why not
> some other frequency? What if they grew up with an old piano that had
> to be tuned flat?
>
> Would a European with perfect pitch agree that A=440? Or would she base
> her ability on another definition? Would she go nuts if she came to the
> USA? If my American friend with perfect pitch at A=440 went to Europe
> to play at A=442 would he cringe?
>
> Do we know how perfect pitch appears in an individual? An earlier
> poster said that these individuals use no internal or external
> reference, but I'm not so sure.
>
> Please don't misunderstand, I'm not trying to deny the existence of the
> phenomenon. I had a childhood friend who could name all the notes when
> I just randomly hammered a piano. He didn't know how he did it either.
>
>
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