How we hear is interesting. When I was 8 years old in addition to playing piano (poorly) I took up the trumpet. At my first lesson, my teacher played a note and said that was "C". I responded that it sounded like Bb. That's when he "discovered" that I had pitch recognition. Up until that time, I thought everyone could tell what note was being played. I think that's why I can easily pick out the partials that are there since I know where they should be. I think that without pitch recognition it would be more difficult to locate the 5th partial. I agree that there are times to listen to the natural beat and times to listen to a particular partial. After 35 years it has become pretty automatic and I don't pay a lot of attention to which way I'm listening at any given point. dave David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu<mailto:dporritt at smu.edu> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of David Andersen Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 9:57 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Aurally pure octaves This thread is getting really good now: describing HOW we hear. This is crucial: I love that Ed calls listening to coincident partials "analytic;' that's what it feels like---a different part of my consciousness is matching partials than listening to the blend of partials that is the "whole-tone." I can do both, but it seems more thorough and "feels better" to me to listen to everything that's happening when I play two notes; I like I can serve the tuning, and the piano, better. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090313/b12442a6/attachment.html>
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