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From: davisonj@en.ecn.purdue.edu (John M Davison)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Re: Perfect Pitch
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.140024.14520@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 91 14:00:24 GMT
References: <3123@esquire.dpw.com> <7180012@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> <3137@esquire.dpw.com>
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In article <3137@esquire.dpw.com> weigel@DPW.COM (William Weigel) writes:
>
>     The previous post asked whether a pure sine wave Bb sounds different
>from a pure sine wave A.  David Burge, the perfect pitch teacher, claims
>that the tone "colors" are apparent even with pure sine waves, and that
>perfect pitch is completely independent of timbre.  My own ear has not
>progressed to the stage of being able to express an opinion as to whether
>this is true or not.

	I am afflicted with perfect pitch, and I can say that it is
true that one needs no timbral cues to determine frequency (as long as
the sound is pitched to begin with).  Identifying pitches of sine
waves is no problem.

	I don't know if this entirely applies to David Burge, but
anyone who claims that there is a fundamental correlation between
colors and pitch classes is full of shit, and that's all there is to
it.

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-davisonj@ecn.purdue.edu