This reminds me of a few questions I have. Some people claim that perfect or absolute pitch gains the ability to instantly recognize harmonic structures, other

This reminds me of a few questions I have. Some people claim that perfect or absolute pitch gains the ability to instantly recognize harmonic structures, other people say it's a hindrance to anybody that needs to transpose, or, say, play on an old piano tuned to 432, or listen to pressings of Kind of Blue that're played back sharp. And I've never seen a discussion of PP/AP vs the ability that string and wind players have to play to just intonation (vs. e.g. a piano's equal temperament with octave stretches) The posts in /r/musictheory are interesting, the one about perfect/absolute pitch being located in the same part of the brain responsible for language recognition, and possibly synesthesia http://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory/comments/12j97f/can_absolute_pitch_be_learned/ http://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory/comments/12j97f/can_abso... And here trained musicians argue about instant chord recognition and "party trick"-ness. Maybe PP is like "programming language expressiveness" on HN, everybody is certain they know exactly what it means. http://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory/comments/12k6ep/the_truth_about_perfect_pitch/ http://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory/comments/12k6ep/the_trut...