It would be a good trick considering there are no perfect-pitched tones or set of tones in the physical world that corresponds. I just finished brushing up a rock hard older rather neglected Petrof a couple days ago and as I was finishing the organist from the church walked in and asked a question about Rønisch pianos. He wanted to know why other pianos were not built so that they never had to be tuned like the Rønisch, declaring it had been moved from the store he bought it new 25 years ago to his country home and tho it had never been tuned it was still perfectly in tune. And.... he knew this to be the case because he had perfect pitch. I said nothing of course.... anyone knowing Rønisch instruments from the last 25-50 years would know how perfect this fellow pitch was. Ok an extreme example but just so. Pitch memory to varying degrees exists... and its not exactly the same for every note in every instance for every person... and it varies around the world. Languages that utilize pitch inflection as part of context for word meanings apparently have more instances of the phenomenon and to a greater degree of sensitivity I'm told. Vietnamese comes to mind. Western musical pitch sensitivity in extreme cases where a person actually experiences much of our best music as horribly out of tune.... strikes me as more of a handicap then anything else. Cheers RicB Is there really such a thing as "perfect" pitch? Is there anyone who is, perfect? I think individuals possess "relative" pitch, such as you described people being able to name notes played on a piano, or to be able to sight sing. But to have perfect pitch, to me, would mean they would have to be able to tell you the cents sharp or flat a particular note is, without looking. IMHO!
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