Author: EaubeauHorn
Date: 2024-06-22 21:43
That is if you CAN. Those with perfect pitch cannot. Think of it this way: just the colors in the rainbow, what if you had to call them different names depending on what room you were in, and you had to remember what all those different names were? But if you have Perfect Color (which almost everyone does) then you can just let everybody else change the names of them all they want, and just keep on calling them by their real names no matter what room you happen to be in.
As for talking to repair people -- I always refer to the names they are expecting to hear. it would be just asking for trouble to not.
I took a (French) horn lesson from a well known trombonist once, and I could see him having to translate the note names in his head, to make them correct for me -- turned out he had perfect pitch, and was having to find the "correct wrong name" to converse with me, a horn player. When I told him I had perfect pitch and he could use the right names, he looked puzzled and said "but how to you read horn music then?" And when I said I simply read a different clef, I saw the light bulb go on. ALL people with perfect pitch have to do this, just like anyone who has normal color vision isn't going to go changing the names of the colors just because they are in a different room. The PP people can't do it the relative people way, and vice versa. My friends who are not PP people think I have a distinct advantage, but, as brass players, we can't just put fingers down and blow -- we have to buzz the correct pitch at the same time as we're putting the fingers down, sometimes at a pretty fast rate of speed.
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