Hi All, When I was a Sophmore in high school, I signed up for the music theory class. There were only 8 of us and our teacher decided on a pitch experiment. Each class time instead of coming into the room, we lined up outside the door. He played a note on the piano and if you got it right you could enter, if not you went to the back of the line. Each person got 2 tries. If you started at the back of the line you had a better chance! He began with the notes from middle C to the next C up - white notes only at first, then adding black notes. As we got better, he widened the range. As a result I can't listen to a piano concerto without saying "Oh, that's an F#". But my relative pitch did improve, and after playing in the orchestra for many years, I memorized the sound of the tuning note so that I can sing it accurately most of the time. Any pitch heard and recognized once in a day sets me up for knowing what all the other ones are. Thanks to my music teacher I guess.
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