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 Re: Perfect Pitch Gene and Clarinetist
Author: Ed Granger 
Date:   2007-08-31 15:08

Interestingly, whilst googling this topic, I came across an article that appeared in yesterday's Washington Post on this very topic:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/30/AR2007083000642.html

The reseach in the article seems to suggest that perfect pitch is a discrete phenomenon, which you either have or you don't, and which supports David's contention that it is genetic. There is an op-ed element to the article as well. But it does suggest that the kind of perfect pitch revealed by the study is a distinctly different skill from relative pitch.
I still believe there's a developmental aspect, but am willing to be proven wrong in the long haul. Seems to me you'd want to isolate the specific gene responsible for perfect pitch, then identify people who have it through genetic testing, then subject people with that gene with no real musical background to pitch testing of some kind.

Ed

Post Edited (2007-08-31 15:28)
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