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From: carroll@ssc-vax (Jeff Carroll)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Perfect Pitch and Hertz
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Date: 20 Mar 91 04:31:07 GMT
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In article <1991Mar19.195901.6769@odin.corp.sgi.com> gints@prophet.sgi.com (Gints Klimanis) writes:
>If you can perceive 5 Hz discrepencies at pitches near 10 kHz, you
>should be able to perceive discrepencies near 100 Hz with a sensitivity
>that is two orders of magnitude greater.  

	Good point. My problem is that I've been an engineer for too long, and
have gotten used to thinking in Hz.

	My gut feeling, though, is that it's not that simple; that is, that
I don't perceive pitch as a simple log-frequency scale.


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Jeff Carroll
carroll@ssc-vax.boeing.com