Author: mschmidt
Date: 2006-08-14 20:28
More comments...during my "oboe hiatus" I was singing a fair amount; you'd think that it would improve one's ear. Well, it does, but the improvements don't seem to translate well to oboe. I can sing reasonably well in tune, and am reasonably good at "sight singing," which means I can hear a sequence of intervals in my head just from reading the notes. But somehow the mental representations of pitches for oboe are stored in different parts of my brain than for singing pitches--when I returned to oboe, I still couldn't hear how sharp my second-register A was.
I find that I am very good at knowing when a pitch is 5 cents flat, but much worse at knowing when a pitch is 15 cents sharp. I wonder if this is a general human characteristic, an oboe characteristic, or just me.
Mike
Still an Amateur, but not really middle-aged anymore
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