perfect pitch defined/Hughes Reply

[David Skolnik]

David -
This could get complicated, as there is yet another David who has 
already posted on this topic, but I'll brave it. I share David 
Hughe's appreciation for you lucid post and would be quite interested 
in additional information about the study you mention. While the 
nomenclature might indeed be imperfect, it tends to get us into the 
ballpark, wherein the specifics are still being debated.  On the 
other hand, now that we've pretty much settled on RPT (for now), 
maybe we do need a new object of our semantic tensions.

There is another recognized expert on this (and many other) aspects 
of the psychology of sound who is at UCSD named Diana 
Deutsch.   http://deutsch.ucsd.edu/    There are numerous articles 
she has written on the subject, the most recent of which seems to be 
the one written in 2006 in Acoustics Today.

Regards -
David Skolnik
Hastings on Hudson, NY

At 12:29 PM 7/2/2008, you wrote:
>Thanks.  I will forward it to the list.
>
>
>David Love
>davidlovepianos at comcast.net
>www.davidlovepianos.com
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David G. Hughes, RPT [mailto:davidghughesrpt at comcast.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:20 AM
>To: Pianotech List
>Cc: davidlovepianos at comcast.net
>Subject: Re: perfect pitch defined/Hughes Reply
>
>David Love,
>
>     I LOVE you for composing and posting this. I have always 
> cringed upon hearing the term "perfect pitch".
>     Your definitions and explanations are perfect. Permit me one 
> suggestion to the entire musical community: we drop the term 
> perfect pitch and substitute it with "pitch (or note) recognition". 
> This is, after all, what we're talking about. There never has nor 
> will there ever be anything perfect about musical pitch.
>     I don't know how to post messages to the PTG list. If you could 
> do so for me with this response I'd be most appreciative.
>     Many thanks.
>
>     Dave Hughes, RPT
>

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