I've never quite understood perfect pitch because musical tunings have
evolved arbitrarily unless some frequency just seemed "right" to some
people. I worked with a pianist who claimed to have perfect pitch and
would bring a tuning kit to gigs to fix and instrument he had to play
on. I need to look up if there is some physiological theory on why some
people develop "perfect pitch."
On 09/13/2015 11:42 AM, jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
MS,
It's unusual that a girl would study the trombone as the instrument of
choice. I'm thinking that girls usually play the violin, viola or
cello. But it obviously paid off for her since she's playing for
symphonies now.
To a gifted musician, the world itself is a symphony of music. One of
Greek philosophers coined the term "music of the spheres" to describe
the function of the various planets in the zodiac. IMO, the "music"
refers to the wave functions for each of the planets which affect our
brains and physiology.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <msilver1951@...> wrote :
This girl was 13 at the time. She did not major in piano but trombone
and now plays for symphonies. Her father was a conductor. She said
that her biggest problem was when playing with symphonies it would
drive her nuts when the symphony would tune sharp of the standardized
tuning of 440 because to her ear 440 was normal. When she was young
and would hang out with my daughter, she would identify the pitches of
all the different sounds like printers transformer noise etc. Got to
be a joke after awhile.
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