Re: OT: high-precision tuner app

[Jacques Menu Muzhic]

I once played near a timpani guy who told me: «  I hear a G, thus you’re 
playing an F » !

Sort of « one tone off » perfect pitch…

JM

> Le 26 mai 2016 à 09:34, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> 
>> "Perfect pitch" is a sham.  [...]
> 
> It seems that you don't know the facts very well.  Absolute pitch is
> *not* related to being a `better' musician.  In fact, it's not even
> related to music.  Have a look at the Wikipedia article; it gives a
> nice overview.
> 
> In general, I consider having an absolute pitch a burden.  My life
> would be *much* easier if I hadn't to do transposition all the time.
> 
>> I've sat in on seminars for composition, ear-training, musicology,
>> music history, you name it; if one of the composers said he had
>> perfect pitch, everybody's eyes lit up, and his scores are
>> immediately taken more seriously.
> 
> Pfft.  Maybe this is an US thing.  Here in Austria and Germany noone
> takes care of that.
> 
>> What it really means is this: you have internalized the 12-note
>> equal tempered scale -- usually through extensive piano lessons from
>> an early age -- to such a point that your auditory memory is deeply
>> enough ingrained that you can associate heard pitches with their
>> usual note names.  That's it.
> 
> No, it's not.  Please look up the facts.
> 
> 
>    Werner
> 
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