> "Perfect pitch" is a sham. [...]
It seems that you don't know the facts very well. Absolute pitch is
*not* related to being a `better' musician. In fact, it's not even
related to music. Have a look at the Wikipedia article; it gives a
nice overview.
In general, I consider having an absolute pitch a burden. My life
would be *much* easier if I hadn't to do transposition all the time.
> I've sat in on seminars for composition, ear-training, musicology,
> music history, you name it; if one of the composers said he had
> perfect pitch, everybody's eyes lit up, and his scores are
> immediately taken more seriously.
Pfft. Maybe this is an US thing. Here in Austria and Germany noone
takes care of that.
> What it really means is this: you have internalized the 12-note
> equal tempered scale -- usually through extensive piano lessons from
> an early age -- to such a point that your auditory memory is deeply
> enough ingrained that you can associate heard pitches with their
> usual note names. That's it.
No, it's not. Please look up the facts.
Werner
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