Re: [Harp-L] Off-topic: Perfect Pitch

Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx> · Tue, 23 Aug 2005 00:05:16 -0400

On Aug 22, 2005, at 3:27 PM, jazmaan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I don't mean to resurrect an endless discussion of perfect pitch but I 
need to answer a question

for someone.   He has the ability to sing any popular song that he is 
familiar with in its proper

key, even if he hasn't heard the song in years.   I tested that 
ability today with over a dozen

different Beatle tunes and he made no errors.
Is that a form of perfect pitch?

 Yes, it is pitch memory
   Or is it something that he could develop into perfect pitch?

 No need, what he has is ABOVE having perfect pitch
  I

suggested that if he memorized the names of the keys for 12 different 
songs in 12 different keys,

he could claim perfect pitch.

 You can't memorize pitch. If he comes in ON pitch, he has pitch memory 
and this must be quite rare.

smo-joe
   What do you think?
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