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From: ted@dgbt.doc.ca (Ted Grusec)
Subject: Re: <None>
Message-ID: <1991Apr6.004426.24266@dgbt.doc.ca>
Keywords: Perfect Pitch
Organization: The Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada
References: <1991Mar19.134336.23909@ircam.fr> <4123.27fb5354@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> <4124.27fb558b@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 91 00:44:26 GMT

One comment on this general thread on perfect pitch. Some people seem
to think that way that we normally deal with visual color is analogous
to perfect pitch. I don't think this is so. If I show you a "red", and
then a slightly different shade of "red" at some time later, then you
are not likely to be able to detect the difference between these two
different "reds" without having both to compare. With perfect pitch, a
person can detect a slight difference in pitch between two notes
presented at different times without needing to have both present for
comparison. Pigeons, and other birds, however, do have a "perfect
color" sense that IS like perfect pitch, but that's another story.