Wives tales ... violin tuning

[Dean May]

My mother was that way. You could play two adjacent notes a half step apart
simultaneously and she could name them.

 

Dean

Dean May             cell 812.239.3359 

PianoRebuilders.com   812.235.5272 

Terre Haute IN  47802

 

  _____  

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Fenton Murray
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 1:08 AM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: Wives tales ... violin tuning

 

I've have had clients who could name the notes in a chord, it did not matter
how you stacked them up, 6, 8 10 notes, no problem. That's really not pitch,
but it sure impresses me. No such thing as perfect, I agree.

Fenton

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Matthew <mailto:toddpianoworks at att.net>  Todd 

To: Pianotech List <mailto:pianotech at ptg.org>  

Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 5:57 AM

Subject: Re: Wives tales ... violin tuning

 

There is no such thing as PERFECT pitch, only relative pitch.  It someone
had perfect pitch, it would mean it would have to be perfect, and besides
Jesus Christ, I have yet to see a human that was perfect.  If indeed this
customer had perfect pitch, they could be able to tell you that the note was
four cents flat.  But because she said the note sounded like a "d", it is
relative.

 

Matthew

Richard Brekne <ricb at pianostemmer.no> wrote:

Yes... a good sense of relative pitch memory is an interesting thing 
indeed. Its just that it would be best for all concerned if it were kept 
better in perspective... i.e. words like Perfect and Absolute left out 
of it. Severely extreme cases of pitch sensitivity are more a handicap 
then an asset. Fortunately... there are very very few on this planet 
that actually suffer to that degree....and correspondingly few that 
could with any hint of justification fnyss at someone else for erring 
<> pitchwise.

Cheers
RicB


I had a customer a few days ago, whose piano I tuned 2 years ago. 
She played some notes and said how flat they were...the piano in
general sounded reasonable. I got started and the piano was indeed
about 4 cents flat and 7 in the treble. When done I asked her if
she had perfect pitch...wasn't sure. I played a D and she said that
sounded like a D...pretty cool...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA 94044

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080701/84a98142/attachment.html