Hallo, Burkhard Wölfel hat gesagt: // Burkhard Wölfel wrote: > OTOH I don't think there is anyone born with it. It is a product of > practice. Well, some research hints at the opposite direction: perfect pitch is something you un-learn because it most circumstances it's useless or at least less "useful" than relative pitch or because most people grow up in an environment, where stable absolute pitches are rare. David Huron cites lots of research in his book "Sweet Anticipation" where he looks at the various theories about how music may be representated in the mind. Also S. Mithen's "The Singing Neanderthals" also has a long section summarizing perfect pitch research with musical savants. Personally I had better absolute pitch when I was still playing the saxophone (not very "perfect", more in the range of 5 halftones) and I un-learned most of it when switching to algorithmic composition with Pd. :) Ciao -- Frank _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user