Author: skygardener
Date: 2011-11-02 12:00
A couple things about the OP-
People with "perfect pitch" cannot necessarily tell the difference between 440 and 445, except in comparison, of course.
If a person with perfect pitch walked in your house and you sat down at the piano and played a note, they might say that it is a C, but not "It's a C, but 3 cents flat."
I don't have perfect pitch, but I know a few people that do, and all of them had a variance as to how accurate their perception was. With one person, for example, he could literally tell you all the notes of any chord or cluster you played- Mozart or Xenakis, he always knew what notes were being played. However, when you asked him to sing a note, say Eb, he would usually be on the sharp side in the morning and on the flat side at night. It was still a very accurate Eb sung at any time of day in any context, but his pitch changed a little throughout the day. Another person I knew was the opposite, flat in the morning, sharp at night.
And his (the former example) pitch playing- OMG! He was a concert master, but his pitch when he was playing something the first few times was ghastly!! He took care of it, and after a few hours everything sounded fine, but never on the first reading.
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