Interesting Steve, I have been told and have always thought that perfect pitch doesn't mean perfect intonation. Do you always hear A as 440? Has perfect pitch meant that a person that has it always hears
A as 440? If so historically what about those times when 440 wasn't the norm? I do wonder about this. Milton Milton Kicklighter 4th Horn Buffalo Philharmonic Retired ________________________________ From: Steve Haflich <[email protected]> To: The Horn List <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, May 12, 2011 12:21:43 AM Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Middle g on Bb horn Steve Freides <[email protected]> wrote: It's interesting for me, as someone with perfect pitch, to be an amateur horn player. I actually take it as a point of pride that I've learned to let myself play out of tune - my tendency is to try to fix everything, but if you do that, your playing never acquires any ease. I need to fix my intonation by trying to address the technique problems that are causing the intonation problems. Perfect pitch is a very mixed blessing. On anecdotal evidence, I believe that when one ages, one's perfect pitch gradually goes flat. An excellent aged scholar and musician of my acquaintance complained many years ago that his perfect pitch was now based about a semitone low. He found this very annoying. [Myself, I don't have absolute pitch, but I may have absolute volume. A colleague once remarked that I might be the loudest horn player he had ever heard, at least among those with only two legs. But at other times members of my section have called me the horn player who could play the softest. If you can't play softly enough so the conductor cannot hear you, he can always ask you to play softer. Playing softly without losing expression and focus is a skill that seems not often taught in this modern age.] _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/kicklighgter%40yahoo.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
