Tony Caught wrote: > Your statement "But to achieve a level of artistry in either requires a high level of sensitivity to the audible spectrum and perfect pitch is an aspect of this sensitivity." may be correct for many musicians but pianists and piano tuners (particularly the good ones) understand how inharmonicity changes the perfect pitch (chromatic) and that PP must be ignored in favour of the harmony of the harmonics. > PP is not an absolute, mathematical pitch reference, a la Braid-White's famous chart, but a composite recording in the brain made by a hodgepodge of instruments heard over one's lifetime which, with any luck, were reasonably in tune. If, for example, you've listened to nothing but a well-tuned, equal-tempered piano your whole life, then your "perfect pitch" will consist of stretched octaves and smoothly progressing thirds, sixths and tenths, and other instruments and temperaments might sound out of tune to you. -- Thomas A. Cole, RPT Santa Cruz, CA mailto:tcole@cruzio.com
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