Re: OT: high-precision tuner app

[Jacques Menu Muzhic]

BTW : are there people with 415 Hz perfect pitch, and others with 442 Hz?

> Le 26 mai 2016 à 09:41, Jacques Menu Muzhic <address@hidden> 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 <address@hidden> a écrit :
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>> 
>>> "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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