I am familiar with perfect pitch; please do not insult my intelligence or training. (My composition professor at McGill, Bruce Mather, had moveable / tunable perfect pitch that was entirely automatic: whatever pitch level the ensemble tuned to - whether A=440Hz or whatever, he automatically adjusted.)
The reality is that perfect pitch is not too useful in music where instruments may be tuned to A=440Hz in one ensemble and 417Hz in another. GJC > > Dear Gordon (and the List) > > On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Gordon J. Callon wrote: > > > [Singers of early music do not use absolute pitch since early > > instruments are pitched at various levels in any case.] > > Well, when someone has the "absolute pitch", he/she has it! > The memory of pitches, not the memory of note names... > There is no way of "not using" it... The pitch which is > _called_ for ex. f sharp or f, e or e flat, etc. is anyhow > the _pitch_ you know! Only the _names_ may vary! Well, and > then there are the different non equal tuning systems... ;) > > All the best > > Arto >
