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Re: Perfect Pitch Gene and Clarinetist "perfect pitch from tonal timbre"

Author: Ski
Date: 2007-08-29 08:53

Hi Peter,

I told this a local high school music director who discussed this with another music director and he said they came to the conclusion that perfect pitch is a liability because it makes it the player have difficulty following out of tune band members.

Assigning liability to a person's natural musical ability? Puh-lease... Both of those teachers are, frankly, sheer idiots. If the other kids are out of tune, it's not your son's fault that he can hear that. It's the teachers' fault for not doing a better job at getting the other kids in the band to be in tune.

The mind boggles...

Perfect pitch ("PP") is a natural ability which should be fostered, practiced, and honed.

I exhibited PP from the time I was four or five. I'm now 45. I started piano lessons at 5 and I've been a professional musician since I got out of conservatory. My ability to discern pitches and tell when people are out of tune (and by how much) has done nothing but serve me well over the course of my musical life.

I rarely ever discuss my resume on forums, but save it to say this: if you saw the roster of artists I've worked for and the types of jobs I've done over the course of my professional life, musical director, composer, pianist, orchestrator, arranger, and transcriptionist, you'd clearly see that having PP is not a liability.

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