On Wednesday, Feb 28, 2007, at 09:28 America/Los_Angeles, Ed Durbrow wrote:
> Perfect pitch is a form of memory. Some percentage of people are born > with a capacity for extraordinary memory. Why would it have been > different then? I think Dan asked the question because people with absolute pitch these days normally learn a fixed pitch standard. They hear 440 Hz and recognize it as A. He's interested in what happens when someone with pitch memory is exposed to several different pitch standards. How would that person identify 440 Hz? A? B flat? I know some people with absolute pitch who have problems playing at A=415, because they hear everything a half tone flat. I remember a poster on rec.music.early some years ago describing how his own absolute pitch standard changed when he started working with non-440 pitches. It can apparently be a real hurdle. HP To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
