Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!deccrl!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!tcdcs!dce.ie!em From: em@dce.ie (Eamonn McManus) Newsgroups: comp.music Subject: Re: Perfect Pitch Message-ID: Date: 11 Apr 91 20:30:35 GMT References: <41109@genrad.UUCP> Organization: Datacode Communications Ltd, Dublin, Ireland Lines: 23 In "Am I Too Loud?", the accompanist Gerald Moore describes how he had perfect pitch, then lost it more or less as an act of will, because it got in the way when he had to play in a different key and the like. bgw@genrad.com (Bruce G. Wilhelm) writes: > My ex-aunt claimed she developed PP by memorizing the lowest note in >her vocal range and translating from there. She passed my test. I don't have PP (though I can sometimes come up with a reference note), so I tend to use external standards when I need to be able to identify pitches. For years I carried a bicycle clip in my coat pocket that could be used both for keeping my trousers out of the bicycle chain and for giving me a reliable B-natural. Nowadays I use my digital watch which produces a little beep when you push one of its buttons. Coincidentally that is B-natural too. I wouldn't like to try using the vocal range method, because my lowest note varies by about a fourth depending on all sorts of factors, including how long I have been singing and how much I had to drink the night before. , Eamonn