Perfect Pitch

[Zen Reinhardt]

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> From: Richard Moody  <remoody@easnetsd.com>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Perfect Pitch
> Date: Friday, July 11, 1997 2:32 AM
> 
> Hi Phil
> 	I have a question that has been bugging since I wondered about it
> due to a tune I couldn't get out of my head.  If a person has perfect
> pitch, pitch recognition,or tonal recal, or tonal recognition, or
> whatever you want to call it,  can he or she upon hearing a tune,
> write down the notes, especially if they can hum it to themselves. 

Hi Richard:

The PitchBitch says YES.  In fact, that is precisely how I write down my
musical thoughts in the middle of the night when all of my musical toys are
in another room.

ZR!  RPT
diskladame@provide.net
 
> I  have no idea if a note being played is C or A, so that precludes
> me from knowing what key the song is in.   I have heard that with
> training one can recognize the interval of the next note played. I
> think it is easier to produce the interval musically than to name it
> upon hearing it. I can tell most triads esp if they are in tonic.  Of
> course rhythm or timing is important, other wise Joy to the World
> would sound only like a descending C major scale.
> 
> Richard Moody    
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