Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde!uunet!mailrus!ncar!unmvax!bbx!bbxsda!scott From: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) Newsgroups: comp.music Subject: Re: What is perfect pitch? (Was re: New tunings) Message-ID: <410@bbxsda.UUCP> Date: 5 Dec 89 17:15:05 GMT References: <18807@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <365@bbxsda.UUCP> <75@motto.UUCP> Reply-To: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker) Organization: Basis International, Albuquerque, NM Lines: 19 In article abrams@cs.columbia.edu (Steven Abrams) writes: >This sounds to me like one of those cases of tone-memory that people >have been talking about. I remember a show that I directed where one >girl had to start off a song by herself. She and I spent so much time >going over how I was going to cue her and what the starting note was >going to be that she no longer needed the faint tap on the piano that >I was giving her. She did *not* have perfect pitch, but for the >duration of rehearsals and performances, she remembered that pitch. I think a lot of it also has to do with repeated rehersals of the same songs in the same sequence. One starts to remember the change in key going from one song to the next and might not require a new reference pitch for each song. -- Scott Amspoker Basis International, Albuquerque, NM (505) 345-5232 unmvax.cs.unm.edu!bbx!bbxsda!scott