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From: gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor)
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Subject: Perfect Pitch as a Birth Defect....
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Date: 9 Apr 91 22:01:58 GMT
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In article <4124.27fb558b@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> joelson@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes:
>Perfect pitch is both good and bad...
>bad - out-of-tune music in almost intolerable, it is difficult to
>      sing in an out of tune choir or play an out of tune piano as
>      I mentally have to translate each note.
I never thought of this before, but I'll bet that those tuning systems
that don't adhere carefully to equal temperment, or those systems which
involve the use of close tuning to produce "beating" tones as a part of
the effect [like, say, Bali] must truly be a torturous experience.
Never thought of perfect pitch as a problem before :-)

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