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Author: Sylvain
Date: 2012-01-28 02:23
Fun experiment from a colleague to test pitch discrimination.
Try it for yourself and spread the word to your friends!
http://bit.ly/pitchtester
It's part of a research project on tone perception and tone deafness.
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Sylvain Bouix <sbouix@gmail.com>
Post Edited (2012-01-30 19:49)
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Author: Clarimeister
Date: 2012-01-28 02:41
This was really fun to take, and it gets extremely challenging. I got a really good result! That Eb clarinet playing must be helping with my constant focus on pitch and tuning.
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Author: cxgreen48
Date: 2012-01-28 02:48
My result:
"At 500 Hz you can reliably hear pitch differences of 1.46875 Hz, which means you did better than approximately 93.8% of people who took our test! "
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2012-01-28 06:29
BAM!
"At 500 Hz you can reliably hear pitch differences of 0.859375 Hz, which means you did better than approximately 98.9% of people who took our test!"
Wailing high microtones on contra pays off! :P
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: gsurosey
Date: 2012-01-30 04:05
"At 500 Hz you can reliably hear pitch differences of 1.5625 Hz, which means you did better than approximately 92.4% of people who took our test!"
Cool!
When the pitches got really close together, I heard the lower pitches as being more muted and the higher pitches as being brighter.
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Rachel
Clarinet Stash:
Bb/A: Buffet R13
Eb: Bundy
Bass: Royal Global Max
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Author: TJTG
Date: 2012-01-30 04:52
"At 500 Hz you can reliably hear pitch differences of 0.6875 Hz, which means you did better than approximately 99.6% of people who took our test!"
I used headphones. Did you use speakers?
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Author: rtmyth
Date: 2012-01-30 13:29
also, check adaptive pitch site for more testing.
richard smith
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2012-01-30 16:34
"At 500 Hz you can reliably hear pitch differences of 1.6875 Hz, which means you did better than approximately 91.0% of people who took our test!"
Maybe I should've used headphones and switched the radio in the background off!
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: TianL
Date: 2012-01-30 17:21
ha on my first try:
At 500 Hz you can reliably hear pitch differences of 0.703125 Hz, which means you did better than approximately 99.5% of people who took our test!
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Author: TianL
Date: 2012-01-30 17:37
hmm i wonder if this gets better with practice. the second time i got 0.59375 Hz and 99.8%
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Author: Sylvain
Date: 2012-01-30 19:59
Once you get in the 90%-95% range, the results are not the most reliable. You'd have to take the test a number of times to robustly estimate both the average and variance of your pitch determination skills.
Most importantly, I'd even venture that one's ability to discriminate pitch is not necessarily correlated with one's ability to produce the right pitch at the right time I score at around 1Hz at 500Hz, that's about 3.5 cents. Only in my wildest dream, could I ever play with such accuracy!! (PS the difference between A=440 and A=442 is about 8 cents)
By the way, the research is targeted at finding tone-deaf individuals, so if you have truly musically-challenged friends, have them take the test!
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Sylvain Bouix <sbouix@gmail.com>
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Author: Mary Jo
Date: 2012-01-31 17:04
That was a tough test! I'm waiting for the results, though I think years of working near and on a flight line will skew the score.
Thanks for posting the exam.
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