[rodgersorgan] Re: Pitches, I meant Pitches!

At 03:14 AM 06/26/2003 -0400, you wrote:

>Jack,
>I have one question for you. Can you sing an "A"  anytime and go to the 
>piano and play it only to find that  you have sung that exact pitch?
>I hear the pitches in my brain and know what key they're in and can tell 
>you if its a,b flat, g augmented 7th etc. Can you do that? Because if you 
>can, anyone can play a note on anything and you will know what it is. that 
>sir, is perfect pitch.

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Unfortunately I do not have "perfect pitch".  I admire those who can hear a 
note and they
identify it exactly.  But since our music scale is based on A being 440 Hz 
what about
those whose A is not 440 but different as it was in European scales of a 
couple of centuries
ago.  Did they have "perfect pitch" based on a different scale?  I presume 
that those
who have perfect pitch today do so from their inherent ability to relate 
what they hear
to the musical scale that we are trained to use.

My "hearing" the melody and chords is an approximation to the frequency at 
which I will play
what I "hear".  For example, if I "hear" in my head a melody and I perceive 
it to be in the key
of F, when I sit down at the organ and play what I "hear" in the key of 
F,it may turn out that my "hearing" was off
by a semitone.  So I guess I mentally transpose to the key of F to 
play.  Have I made myself
clear or only muddied it up?

Jack

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