[email protected] wrote: I always thought perfect pitch was a bad idea. I've known plenty of people with perfect pitch who have a lot of difficulty tuning to people who aren't perfect - which is nearly everyone else. Plus, equal temperament isn't always just intonation, either. How do you stick with perfect pitch if an orchestra decided to tune to 442 or 444? Or if you're in a Baroque ensemble and they tune to 418? Even worse, a friend (Prof of Music Theory at a major midwest university) with perfect pitch lamented to me that, for many people with perfect pitch, the internal reference goes flat with age. This made him perpetually feel that he had to tune to the cracks.
But he didn't have a choice not to have perfect pitch. _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
