> My anecdote is that I gained absolute pitch by playing on a Yamaha keyboard as a young child. I have a similar anecdote. I had a small Casio keyboard that I

> My anecdote is that I gained absolute pitch by playing on a Yamaha keyboard as a young child. I have a similar anecdote. I had a small Casio keyboard that I gave to my daughter to play with when she was 3 or 4. There was no training or any kind of instruction beyond that. It was just another toy that was in her pile of toys and it wasn't something she played with very often. Many years later, we are in a music store and I hit a key on a piano and she tells me it's wrong. I didn't really understand what she was saying and then we found out the keyboard had some pitch shift mode enabled and she was right. That's the day we found out she had perfect pitch.