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From: lucy@cdp.UUCP
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Subject: Re: <None>
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Date: 8 Apr 91 03:41:00 GMT
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Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!lucy    Apr  7 20:41:00 1991


Jumping into the "perfect pitch" (I prefer "pitch memory") fray:
>The ear is capable of hearing a range of up to 10 octaves.
>This makes it possible to us to hear all the overtones that enable us
>to distinguish vowels (understand language).
Speaking as a person with the genuine article, if by that is meant that
I've been able to name notes since age 5, I agree that the color analogy
is not adequate.  Notes never sounded like colors to me; in fact, they 
always sounded like vowels! 
I'd be curious to know more about this vowel-overtone relationship...

Lucy