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Watch out what you wish for though. With age our hearing degrades and the experienced frequency shifts. There's a number of people with perfect pitch recognitio

Watch out what you wish for though. With age our hearing degrades and the experienced frequency shifts. There's a number of people with perfect pitch recognition who mentioned getting annoyed when they got older and everything sounded slightly off. For practical music, relative pitch is fine and commonly trained.

dbalatero 2y ago
I'm 38, and my pitch recognition will degrade a half step off sometimes, often when I haven't been playing much.
- TheBozzCL 2y ago
  Interesting… that’s been happening to me but because I’ve been playing a lot with my guitar tuned half-step down. I hear a note that I associate with a chord in my guitar, and I have to remind myself that I need to compensate for it.
alfiedotwtf 2y ago
Dave Smith restarted making Prophet 5 synthesizers a few ago, and the initial batch of users complained that the high frequencies weren’t like the original but when he tested them he couldn’t see any issue… Turns out he was testing by ear, and he was a few decades older since stopping the last production run, and his hearing had rolled off on the high end! Remake users were instructed on how to fix it and newer batches had the fixes built in - maybe by using a younger ear :)
- brailsafe 2y ago
  The existential dread he might have felt after realizing this suddenly would be palpable.
- musicale 2y ago
  > his hearing had rolled off on the high end! Depending on the degree of hearing loss, I wonder if hearing aids might have helped a bit?
physicles 2y ago
This is currently happening to me: I’m starting to be off by a half step when I guess what key something is in. I’m 40 now, and I started noticing it a few years ago. Maybe it started early because I don’t play much music so I wasn’t using it much. This video by Adam Neely was helpful: https://youtu.be/QRaACa1Mrd4 https://youtu.be/QRaACa1Mrd4

dbalatero 2y ago

I'm 38, and my pitch recognition will degrade a half step off sometimes, often when I haven't been playing much.

TheBozzCL 2y ago
Interesting… that’s been happening to me but because I’ve been playing a lot with my guitar tuned half-step down. I hear a note that I associate with a chord in my guitar, and I have to remind myself that I need to compensate for it.

alfiedotwtf 2y ago

Dave Smith restarted making Prophet 5 synthesizers a few ago, and the initial batch of users complained that the high frequencies weren’t like the original but when he tested them he couldn’t see any issue… Turns out he was testing by ear, and he was a few decades older since stopping the last production run, and his hearing had rolled off on the high end! Remake users were instructed on how to fix it and newer batches had the fixes built in - maybe by using a younger ear :)

brailsafe 2y ago
The existential dread he might have felt after realizing this suddenly would be palpable.
musicale 2y ago
> his hearing had rolled off on the high end! Depending on the degree of hearing loss, I wonder if hearing aids might have helped a bit?

physicles 2y ago

This is currently happening to me: I’m starting to be off by a half step when I guess what key something is in. I’m 40 now, and I started noticing it a few years ago. Maybe it started early because I don’t play much music so I wasn’t using it much. This video by Adam Neely was helpful: https://youtu.be/QRaACa1Mrd4 https://youtu.be/QRaACa1Mrd4