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> Whereas the "real" perfect pitch people are always anchored, no matter how much noise anyone throws at them Actually they're not immune to being thrown off,
by klipt 4y ago
> Whereas the "real" perfect pitch people are always anchored, no matter how much noise anyone throws at them
Actually they're not immune to being thrown off, there was an experiment where people with perfect pitch were played a long orchestral piece that very slowly detuned, e.g. over the course of half an hour dropped one semitone. The study found this also detuned their sense of absolute pitch, not just immediately after but also months later.
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/perfect-pitch-may-not-be-absolute-after-all.html https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/perfect-p...
- humanizersequel 4y agoNothing in that article mentions their sense of pitch being detuned "months later."
- maroonblazer 4y agoA good friend of mine in high school had perfect pitch. We played music together and he would complain about his 'anchor' of pitch getting thrown off if/when we wouldn't tune to A 440Hz but instead something else slightly up or down from A440.
- smeej 4y agoMy choir director finds it easier to transpose organ pieces on the fly than "set the organ to a different key" and just play the keys as written for that reason: There's too much dissonance between what his fingers know they're playing and what his ears are hearing. He was one of those little kids who had absolute pitch from the start, though, and he definitely views it as a two-edged sword!