Re: OT: high-precision tuner app

[Werner LEMBERG]

> "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