How about Middle Eastern musicians? Munir Bashir had perfect pitch and I have it also.
The majority of Bashir recordings are with the ¨lower¨ pitch and I prefer the same pitch on my oud and I know Bashir had no problem with changing the pitch from the ¨low¨ traditional one to the modern A=440 and the same for me. I have no problems with the various temperaments or our beloved microtones in the Middle Eastern music. I have also ¨tape-recorder memory¨ which is a great ¨tool¨ for learning compositions/improvisations which never have been written down like the ones by Bashir. Ronny ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Posner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LuteNet list" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 7:03 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: perfect pitch in a meantone sound world? > > 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 >
