RE: [Harp-L] perfect pitch

[Buck Worley <boogalloo@xxxxxxx>]

Q: What is the most 'in demand' sound in Nashville?
 
 
A: The harp case closing
 
BW
 

> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] perfect pitch
> To: celtiac@xxxxxxxxx; harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> From: chromboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 01:09:22 +0000
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> How can u tell if a violin is out of tune?
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> 
> Answer: The bow is moving,-)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Splash!" <celtiac@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sender: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 19:57:12 
> To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] perfect pitch
> 
> When you toss the banjo into the dumpster and it lands directly on the 
> accordion.
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> Badda-Boom!
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> 
> When life asks you to jump in...
> Splash!
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Buck Worley" <boogalloo@xxxxxxx>
> To: "Robert" <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 6:45 PM
> Subject: RE: [Harp-L] perfect pitch
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> 
> Robert-
> 
> I thought that perfect pitch is when the banjo player throws his banjo over 
> the piano and hits the harp player... :D
> 
> Buck
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> 
> > Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 13:31:10 -0700
> > From: robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [Harp-L] perfect pitch
> >
> > HARP PLAYERS
> > Don't be troubled by talk of Perfect pitch, and think that you were born
> > musically disadvantaged. Instead, choose to cultivate your Relative pitch
> > over time and enjoy the heck out of your music.
> >
> > Perfect pitch and Relative pitch are not mutually exclusive. Relative 
> > pitch
> > does not necessarily lead to Perfect pitch. Each has its
> > musical contributions. Many more of us benefit from Relative pitch in our
> > musical journey. (What is the chord change? How far is that next note?)
> >
> > QUESTION
> > If you exhibit Perfect pitch today, but were born in another time and
> > place, would you have Perfect pitch? If "yes," then it is acquired as
> > a cultural norm. In this sense it is "relative" to the period of music in
> > which you acquired it, and not a cosmic absolute.
> >
> > Perfect pitch, then, is the fine and precise identification of a pitch in
> > isolation, without a reference tone.
> > Relative pitch is the ability to identify a note as an interval FROM a
> > recently heard reference tone.
> >
> > READING
> > Interesting site here: http://www.perfectpitch.com/perfectrelative.htm
> > And a better one here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_pitch
> > (read about pitch wars, and pitch inflation)
> >
> > Perfect pitch (absolute pitch) most often references A=440hz today in
> > America. But concert pitch has ranged from 409-450 hz. in Europe from
> > 1700's.
> >
> > Robert Hale
> > Learn Harmonica by Webcam
> > Low Rates, High Success
> > http://www.youtube.com/DUKEofWAIL <http://www.youtube.com/user/DUKEofWAIL>
> > http://www.dukeofwail.com
> = 
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