On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Steve Fosdick <sjflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? Correct. > > Steve. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
