Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rutgers!columbia!cs!abrams From: abrams@cs.columbia.edu (Steven Abrams) Newsgroups: comp.music Subject: Re: What is perfect pitch? Message-ID: Date: 3 Dec 89 02:52:08 GMT References: <18807@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <365@bbxsda.UUCP> <1989Nov27.212927.3253@agate.berkeley.edu> <7051@portia.Stanford.EDU> <357@quad.uucp> <25742AAA.56CC@rpi.edu> <362@quad.uucp> Sender: abrams@cs.columbia.edu Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science Lines: 21 In-reply-to: dts@quad.uucp's message of 30 Nov 89 07:45:42 GMT In article <362@quad.uucp> dts@quad.uucp (David T. Sandberg) writes: Is there anyone here who does have perfect pitch as well as good relative pitch, and who can testify as to whether he/she can "shut one or the other off", i.e., ignore his/her absolute pitch in favor of being in tuneful harmony with someone/something else, or visa versa? I do have both, and can't do it. However, the absolute pitch doesn't stop me from being in "tuneful harmony" -- it has stopped my from doing things like following a score, transposing on the fly, etc. ~~~Steve -- /************************************************* * *Steven Abrams abrams@cs.columbia.edu * **************************************************/ #include #include Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com