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From: marvit@hplpm.hpl.hp.com (Peter Marvit)
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Subject: Re: What is perfect pitch?
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Date: 1 Dec 89 13:51:58 GMT
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In-reply-to: scott@bbxsda.UUCP's message of 28 Nov 89 17:14:54 GMT

> Is there anyone out there with "absolute tempo"?  In other words, if the
> song calls for a tempo of 120 beats/minute can such a person *acurately* do
> that without the assistance of a metronome?  Interesting, no?

While I don't know of proven existance of "absolute tempo" per se, many
studies have shown that trainined musicians can keep a tempo steady
+-5msec!

	-Peter "Doing such a study now" Marvit
	 HP Labs and U.C. Berkeley 
	 "Hello, David L.  Hopefully Wessel will be kind to us for the
	  finals" 


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