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What? Perfect pitch exists outside of any tuning system. I know of concert pitch, but it's unrelated to perfect pitch. The "perfect" in perfect pitch refers
by recursive 2y ago
What? Perfect pitch exists outside of any tuning system. I know of concert pitch, but it's unrelated to perfect pitch.
The "perfect" in perfect pitch refers to a person's ability to recognize pitches, and makes no value judgements on any systems of harmony. Perfect pitch is not even related to harmony at all, as it pertains to a single tone.
Perfect pitch equally applies to all music that's based on pitches. It makes no value judgment about any particular practices, styles, traditions, genres, or tuning systems.
> “Accurately” is doing some psuedo-scientific hand waving. That hand waving what I find interesting.
What? A pitch can be measured as a frequency, which is a number. If someone can correctly identify the frequency accurately, they have perfect pitch. We can define "accurate" to be "within 1%", or whatever error tolerance you prefer. To which pseudo-science do you refer? Note names are used only as shorthand for referring to pitches, but "perfect pitch" doesn't require them. You can demonstrate perfect pitch without any note names or tuning system at all.