ZeroZero wrote:
> Quentin,
> I do like your explanation of perfect pitch particularly the signifiers
> bit, quite the best I have read anywhere, but It does leave me with a
> question.
>
> I always thought that perfect pitch was useful because you could not only
> tell that the chord was say a ...

Quentin wrote:
> You are talking of perfect pitch being a musical gift, but there is not
> much music about perfect pitch. Let me explain:
>
> Perfect Pitch is the ability to recognized isolated tones: a frequency is
> played, you identify it instantly without any musical context. BUT music ...

I'm not sure why some people are saying you need to have appropriately timed childhood training, but from my experience this is ridiculous. I was told I had perfect pitch by my uncle, who happened to be a piano instructor. This happened at 10 when I played an instrument for the first time. I was ...