This follows my theory (totally untested & unencumbered by the thought process) that pitch recognition ought to work like color recognition. Unless color blind, I think most people would agree that there are many shades of any given color. Why not many shades of any given pitch? Molly
On May 12, 2011 7:56 AM, "Steve Freides" <[email protected]> wrote: That's the rub - I can accommodate A = 415 and still not get freaked out, but I can also tell 440 from anything near but not quite right. For me, perfect pitch is more about memory than skill, if that makes sense. People don't think twice about, e.g., remembering what the face of a family member looks like - you just assume you'll recognize it when you encounter it. Music works much the same way for me. I just recognize what I hear as something familiar, and music in Eb just sounds like that, and music in another key just sounds like that, and so on - not really any different from being able to tell the faces or voice of my kids apart. I recall sitting one time with Chris Wilhjelm at a French Horn lesson - he adjusted a tuning slide on my horn but the same pitch came out both before and after the adjustment because I kept making it sound like I thought it should sound. For me, it's important at this point in my horn playing to turn that sort of thing _off_. I hope that's of some help - the only other thing worth mentioning, but it's important, is that there are many, many "flavors" of perfect pitch - when I used to talk with others about it in college, we'd start a conversation saying, "I hear that passage like this ...." and expecting the other person to say, "Yes, it works that way for me, too" but it often didn't. In the end, however, because we all functioned more or less the same to those without perfect pitch, people just assumed we all heard everything in exactly the same way, which we didn't. Rather along the lines of "All <insert race or ethic group here> look alike to me." :) So how it works for me isn't necessarily how it will work for someone else with perfect pitch, e.g., someone else may have a tough time with A=415 but it seems not to bother me, for whatever reason. -S- On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Milton Kicklighter <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting S... > unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/steve.freides%40gmail.com > _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options ... _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
