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Completely tone-deaf person would not be able to recognize voices, e.g. tell male voice from female, father's voice from mother's. Obviously there are cases lik
by AndrewThrowaway 6y ago
Completely tone-deaf person would not be able to recognize voices, e.g. tell male voice from female, father's voice from mother's. Obviously there are cases like this, but I believe very few.
On the other hand reproducing the tone requires practice, and mostly practice with your vocal instrument.
I would imagine that kids who grow up in families where e.g. mother sings while cooking, don't even notice how they practice at the age of 2 or so. But what is important, they train their voice, not only hearing.
It is like with colors. A person can see colors perfectly, but if you asked to mix acrylic paint to get chartreuse? Most of the population would struggle I would believe. We wouldn't call these people color-blind.
However with music I feel we somehow mix tone-deafness and ability to sing/reproduce tone.
- lloeki 6y ago> However with music I feel we somehow mix tone-deafness and ability to sing/reproduce tone. Mind-bogglingly one can apparently be tone-deaf and still be able to sing in tune.
- AndrewThrowaway 6y agoI would doubt that? On the other hand a person lacking ability to tell green from red can still paint quite good landscapes?
- exDM69 6y ago> Completely tone-deaf person would not be able to recognize voices, e.g. tell male voice from female, father's voice from mother's. I find this hard to believe. Human voice has a lot of timbral characteristics that show up on a spectrogram view. It would also imply that a person would be unable to tell the difference between a piano, a guitar and a trombone. This would also make understanding speech very difficult. Do people (with otherwise normal hearing) like this exist? This is pretty different from not being able to distinguish musical pitch, say tell C# from Bb, or be able to tell which one of the pitches is higher.