[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfect pitch, anybody??

Tempered Tuning This is a method of tuning that addresses all of the above factors. In essence, this method takes the inharmonicity of all six strings and the slight mathematical discrepancy between the whole scales and divides the variation equally among each string. This means that while no

[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfect pitch, anybody??

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : MS, It's unusual that a girl would study the trombone as the instrument of choice. I'm thinking that girls usually play the violin, viola or cello. But it obviously paid off for her since she's playing for symphonies now. I

[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfect pitch, anybody??

Wikipedia: A440 or A4, which has a frequency of 440 Hz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertz, is the musical note https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_note A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_(musical_note) above middle C https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_C and serves as a general tuning

[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfect pitch, anybody??

Friend of my daughters was playing our plano. she looked up at me and said this piano is flat, it's tuned to 436 instead of 440. It just so happened that the piano had been tuned to 436 intentionally a few hours before she sat down to play it.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfect pitch, anybody??

MS, I had a friend while in college who proved to me that he had perfect pitch. While he was on the other room, I played on the piano several notes one at a time. And he named all of the notes that I played. I was impressed. He was our guitar player at the time. But he majored in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfect pitch, anybody??

This girl was 13 at the time. She did not major in piano but trombone and now plays for symphonies. Her father was a conductor. She said that her biggest problem was when playing with symphonies it would drive her nuts when the symphony would tune sharp of the standardized tuning of 440 because

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Perfect pitch, anybody??

I've never quite understood perfect pitch because musical tunings have evolved arbitrarily unless some frequency just seemed "right" to some people. I worked with a pianist who claimed to have perfect pitch and would bring a tuning kit to gigs to fix and instrument he had to play on. I need

[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfect pitch, anybody??

MS, It's unusual that a girl would study the trombone as the instrument of choice. I'm thinking that girls usually play the violin, viola or cello. But it obviously paid off for her since she's playing for symphonies now. To a gifted musician, the world itself is a symphony of music.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Perfect pitch, anybody??

Has the Department of Homeland Security been notified? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Friend of my daughters was playing our plano. she looked up at me and said this piano is flat, it's tuned to 436 instead of 440. It just so happened that the piano had been

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Perfect pitch, anybody??

My son who plays bass professionally has relative pitch which means he can determine a secondary note from hearing in his head an E note. The note is always E so he has to work his way up or down the scale to figure out the secondary note.This is probably developed. Perfect pitch on the