On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:28:47 -0500 Charles Henry <czhenry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:26 PM, ailo <ailo.at@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Another note on the subject: > > Some people who have had absolute pitch all their lives may find > > that when they get older their sence of pitch gets out of tune. I > > know this happened to guys like Alexander Glazunov (Russian > > composer) and Sviatoslav Richter (Russian pianist). How fun would > > that be? > > There's some explanation for that effect. When aging, the basilar > membrane stiffens, which shifts the location where resonance occurs. > > Now, there's also the ongoing debate over place vs. rate theories of > pitch, where only the place theory would allow this explanation. Are we saying here that a given pitch resonates at a different place in the cochlea and therefore stimulates the nerves previously associated with a different pitch? Steve. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
