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Re: Perfect Pitch

Author: oboesax
Date: 2011-11-02 20:33

Interesting thread. My daughter, 16, seems to have "relative perfect pitch" as described above. She learned sax, oboe and clarinet all in 3rd-4th grade. She can hit 440 pitch right on every time on oboe, and can also play every other note on each of her instruments in tune (although she's not as exact when playing fast notes). When playing in ensembles or pit orchestras, she automatically adjusts her pitch to match the others, even though they are the ones slightly off-pitch (since they tuned to the oboe A at 440 initially). One musical director recently noticed this about her in the pit. She says she does begin to lose this ability if she takes time off from practicing her scales with the tuner. It does bother her though to hear some top sax players (classical) perform as some of them tune their saxes very sharp.

Although I'm not a professional musician, I did play flute throughout college. One day I got tired of the graduate flute students always blaming the piccolo player (me) for intonation problems. I checked out the old huge "strobo-tuner" and learned to play every note in tune on piccolo every time. It felt good to be vindicated in wind ensemble.

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