Klarinet Archive - Posting 000127.txt from 2010/11

From: "Keith Bowen" <keith.bowen@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] RES: Orchestral Pitch
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:26:39 -0500

People do have so-called perfect pitch, ie they have an aural memory of
pitches and can reproduce them at will. Of course, the exact pitch depends
on the instrument, usually a piano, on which they acquired this memory. And
its temperament. So people indeed differ. The accuracy of this phenomenon, I
am told, is in the region 1 - 5 Hz at around a'=440, though I have not
tested this.

Claiming the whole orchestra was flat is as stupid as the first oboe
pointing to their tuner and saying that everyone else is out of tune.

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Baxter [mailto:martinbaxter1@-----.com]
Sent: 12 November 2010 12:08
To: The Klarinet Mailing List
Subject: Re: [kl] RES: Orchestral Pitch

Hi Nancy,
On that theme could one have perfect pitch in Vienna?
When I was at Manchester University the other four members of my group for
Aural training all had perfect pitch, as did the tutor (Clifford Knowles,
who later led the Liverpool Phil.Orch. However they were not all quite in
tune with each other.Clifford was definitely sharp to A=440Hz, as was shown
at a rather disastrous concert where he was the soloist in the Beethoven
Concerto with the University Orchestra. Prof. Procter-Gregg had carefully
tuned the orchestra to his tuning fork, which was A=440. Clifford played
sharp to the orchestra the whole way through, and afterwards contended that
the orchestra was consistently flat.
Martin

On 11 Nov 2010, at 23:46, Nancy Buckman wrote:

So..... is there such a thing as perfect pitch? Is one person's more
perfect than another's? Please discuss!

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