Graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Some people do have perfect color sense, just as some have perfect pitch. >Both are rather more uncommon than most folk think.
As an interesting aside: Some researchers now think that *everyone* is born with perfect pitch and that it's a matter of "use it or lose it" and most of us do lose it as we grow older - largely because we tend to hear a variety of musical sources that are tuned internally (from one string to the next, for example) but aren't tuned to standard concert pitch overall. (In the days when cassette tapes ruled, one would hear a song in a slightly different key on every different player!) Children who live in a household with a piano that's kept in proper tune and are generally exposed to music played in tune with concert "A 440" grow up keeping perfect pitch. Apparently some people who have been raised in a household with a piano or other instrument that was in tune overall, but not tuned to A 440 have grown up with perfect pitch that's different from "standard", so when they're exposed to the outside world every piece of music sounds "wrong" to them. Has to be one of the all time bummers :( -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
