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From: wikla@cs.Helsinki.FI (Arto Wikla)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Perfect Pitch
Message-ID: <12497@hydra.Helsinki.FI>
Date: 26 Mar 91 11:51:51 GMT
References: <3137@esquire.dpw.com> <1991Mar25.140024.14520@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1991Mar25.171913.2997@linus.mitre.org> <1991Mar25.190633.11351@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
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In <1991Mar25.190633.11351@en.ecn.purdue.edu> 
davisonj@en.ecn.purdue.edu (John M Davison) writes:


>	I am not talking about tone color here; otherwise I would
>have said timbre.  Obviously someone can use timbral cues to
>determine the note being played on a particular instrument.  I was
>talking about visual color.


One friend of mine, who has perfect pitch, has very clear connection
between a key and visual colour. If I remember right, F-major was green,
and E-major blue. But what was most interesting was that when she 
plyed F-major piece in baroque tuning (so. half tone lower, a'=415), the
key was still green, not blue according to the absolute pitch!
She was playing violin, so I suppose the intonation of notes would
have been different if she would think of playing in (modern) E-major.  

Arto Wikla, Helsinki, Finland