BTW : are there people with 415 Hz perfect pitch, and others with 442 Hz? > Le 26 mai 2016 à 09:41, Jacques Menu Muzhic <imj-muz...@bluewin.ch> a écrit : > > I once played near a timpani guy who told me: « I hear a G, thus you’re > playing an F » ! > > Sort of « one tone off » perfect pitch… > > JM > >> Le 26 mai 2016 à 09:34, Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> a écrit : >> >> >>> "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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> lilypond-user@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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