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From: baer@randvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: absolute pitch & musicianship
Message-ID: <1795@randvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-May-84 11:30:53 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 21 11:30:53 1984
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I am intrigued by the interest in perfect or absolute pitch.  I've always
thought that a musician's perfect pitch is comparable to a programmer's
ability to recall from memory the first 32 powers of 2: a useful ability if
you happen to have it, but given the available tools (pitch pipes &
calulators, for example), not worth the trouble of trying to develop.

	Larry Baer
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