Why say that? Wikipedia returns: Absolute pitch (AP), or perfect pitch, is the ability to name or reproduce a tone without reference to an external standard.[1] Follows a very in depth exposé about perfect pitch, maybe that would answer your questions. We are NOT left without "no definition". I don't have perfect pitch, I wish I had. My son has it and he was very fortunate to have very solid ear training where the "perfect pitched" were grouped together and given a special program to take this ability into consideration, not letting them go lazy with it, and provide them with the obligation to develop nevertheless a good "relative" way of hearing the relationships ("relative pitch"). (Extraordinary teacher Luce Beaudet at Université de Montréal) Regards, Allan -----Original Message----- From: david at piano.plus.com Sent: 17 mars 2009 11:48 Subject: Perfect Pitch and Temperaments Marc, your anecdote is certainly interesting. But we are still left with the problem of no definition of terms, when people talk about "perfect pitch". It would be helpful, I think, if you could complete the following sentence: "My definition of perfect pitch is the ability to.............." Best, David.
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