Ok, you’re talking about perfect intervals, not perfect pitch. “Perfect pitch” doesn’t make sense in context and so I was having a hard time figuring out what y

Ok, you’re talking about perfect intervals, not perfect pitch. “Perfect pitch” doesn’t make sense in context and so I was having a hard time figuring out what you were getting at. This is not pedantry. I’m not trying to make a point here, I just didn’t understand what you meant. > The "perfect" in "perfect pitch" glosses over the messy reality of temperaments. Yeah. So do all the other terms like minor, major, diminished, augmented, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, consonant, dissonant, etc. All of those terms gloss over the messy reality of temperaments. The tuning system (including temperaments) are, in fact, what establish the possible relationships between these interval names and the actual pitch ratios. For example, a just major third is 5:4, a pythagorean major third is 81:64, and an equal temperament major third is ∛2:1. > Or to explain further, providing a synopsis of tonal harmony in response to my comment is another of the sort of things I find anthropologically interesting. I’m happy to answer questions but I don’t like feeling like I’m being treated as an anthropological curiosity. If I’m providing more detail than you expect, then chalk it up to a property of Hacker News, which is full of pedants. Sometimes my comments here are damn verbose, just to get ahead of the pedants.