"perfect pitch"

[D_dup3]

Hmm, perhaps this will clarify my thought...if the siren is heard while walking down the street that, generally would be a non-musical context...unless one was mentally imaging some music that the siren clashed with. If the siren was heard in the context of a band that happened to be tuned to pitches that were non-standard, the siren might sound perfect...as it might if it hit the right degree of flatness during a Muddy Waters record. If one took their perfectly tuned (A 440) violin to Bali, it might clash with any number of the gamelans there...& a musician who felt annoyed by anything that wasn't correctly pitched might grab it from one's hands & break it like Jack Benny! ;) My ultimate point is that absolute pitch is one thing but the acclimation to a certain set of pitches as "correct" is cultural at best &, really, a bit over-finicky, IMHO (no offence intented). After all, even European concert pitch has (& as a practical matter, continues to) drift in different eras & locales. Perhaps if I had absolute pitch I'd feel differently but I doubt it; the matter seems to be more one similar to someone annoyed by an object that's not in [i]precisely the right spot[/i] on a table---musical OCD ;) . Oh, & many technicians (so I hear) can detect motors (not car engines) that are not functioning at proper speed by pitch (the spin far too fast to dompare beats). Anyhow, if we differ, we differ; no fault [never a fault when you're funkin']! :thu:

[Steevo]

[quote]Originally posted by Brittanylips: [b]I have "perfect" perfect pitch. The idea that it is a burden is rediculous. It's great. I can hear any music, and know -- without thinking -- what all the notes are. It is as instantaneous as looking at a picture and being able to tell the colors .... Beethoven's C minor preference and other powerful influences in the history of C minor give it an undeniable "character." It is similar to someone recognizing blue as a pure color, and its reference to the sky. -Blilps[/b][/quote]When I was at the University of Miami, I knew several people with perfect pitch and they described it with the 'colors' analogy too. They associated different pitches and notes with colors ... C being 'lighter' and F# being 'darker' for instance. As for myself, I just now hummed a C and went to my piano and it was right on the money. Probably just lucky today.

[Joe McDonough]

[quote]Originally posted by Steevo: [b] [quote]Originally posted by Brittanylips: [b]I have "perfect" perfect pitch. The idea that it is a burden is rediculous. It's great. I can hear any music, and know -- without thinking -- what all the notes are. It is as instantaneous as looking at a picture and being able to tell the colors .... Beethoven's C minor preference and other powerful influences in the history of C minor give it an undeniable "character." It is similar to someone recognizing blue as a pure color, and its reference to the sky. -Blilps[/b][/quote]When I was at the University of Miami, I knew several people with perfect pitch and they described it with the 'colors' analogy too. They associated different pitches and notes with colors ... C being 'lighter' and F# being 'darker' for instance. As for myself, I just now hummed a C and went to my piano and it was right on the money. Probably just lucky today.[/b][/quote]It's funny you should bring up colors used with pitch. I was recently speaking with the founder of this company who says he's found the relationship b/t music and colors and hopes to use it for a new system of notation. His site is at: http://www.origincodes.com/ Interesting stuff....

[D_dup3]

For further thoughts on sirens in music please see thread [b]Beatles's "Birthday" session speculation[/b] on this forum! :D