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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Tuning (e.g. pianos)
Message-ID: <11604@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 89 01:34:56 GMT
References: <11298@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <11298@thorin.cs.unc.edu>, by symon@lhotse.cs.unc.edu (James Symon):
> 
> ... it seems doubtful that most of us have enough latent perfect pitch to
> react differently to C and C# versions played far apart in time (I'm
> not sure about this) ...

Most of us probably would not notice a difference. But my previous roommate
could have. His sense of pitch was eerie. One day he burst through the
front door, still reeling from a self-induced endorphin high. (Racketball
junkie.)  Startled from a studious contemplation, I dinged a drinking glass
against a bottle. It rang with a bell-like clarity. In his pitiful
euphoria, he called out, "A-flat!" Realizing that a small embarassment might
save him a larger one on some later occasion, I crawled confidently to the
piano and struck an A-flat. "Hah!" I said. "The glass is fully four cents
sharp."