Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2011-10-25 22:30
HCR's responses include an idea that I've never heard before, that the pitch memory involved in perfect pitch needs to be maintained, which suggests, if I understand Helen correctly, the capacity (or the educationese word "aptitude") to learn to associate heard frequencies with note names is to some degree inborn and perhaps genetic but the application or ability or skill involved in making the associations is not only learned but later subject to atrophy from disuse.
[HRC wrote]
> I'm fine as long as those others stay in tune with one
> another, no matter where they wander. But if they aren't, and
> somebody gets too far off from the others, it sets my teeth on
> edge and I have to take a hike for a while.
I think that goes for most of us, with or without perfect pitch. I'm interested to read that your tolerance for deviation from the pitches you've learned as being true is so high.
Thanks.
Karl
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