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In Reply to: RE: Except for: posted by oldmkvi on May 15, 2017 at 15:47:59
And I do have perfect pitch. This means that I find equal temperament quite difficult. All the time.I've been singing in Choirs since I was nine, that's 57 years ago. Not so much lately.
I don't actually have a high opinion of my voice, as I am severely aware of my several flaws, always have been, .... I just work at it, always have, once I was trained.
Lots of people tell me that I have a lovely singing voice. Particularly choirmasters.
I simply love singing.
You love taking the piss, I see!
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 05/17/17 05/17/17Follow Ups:
"I do have perfect pitch."
Actually, there's no such thing as perfect pitch. I can present you with a tone, and you will not be able to identify its frequency nor its musical note. Although, with experience, you may come close. Similarly, I can ask you to sing a concert C, or a tone of 285 Hz, and you will not be able to do so without a reference tone.
There is, however, "nearly perfect relative pitch", which is probably what you mean. It's the ability to identify/produce a correct/natural interval ('just intonation', which is based on the harmonics of a tone) between two notes, as opposed to an interval which is a bit "off" (such as 'equal temperament').
While some people are better at this than others, much as some people are better at painting or math or whatever, it's largely a brain predisposition to readily learn the skill.
:)
They tend to regard themselves as having perfect pitch.
I simply find equal temperament difficult to like. Sometimes very, mostly I cope.
Have to.
I do prefer HIPerformances.
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
"They tend to regard themselves as having perfect pitch."
Most of us tend to regard ourselves in some positive way or another, but that doesn't make it so.
Often, amateur and semi-professionals mistakenly assign/label a skill as this-or-that, when it is not. Such is the case with "perfect pitch". It is always relative to another tone. Who doesn't get that?
:)
I had a friend in college who could identify ANY note played on Alto Sax ( his Inst ),
Blind Testing.
Never missed.
George Duke transcribed Dolphin Dance ( Including Chord Symbols ) while listening to it on an LP, no piano used.
I've known lots of people w/Perfect Pitch.
They wouldn't agree with you either!
"I've known lots of people w/Perfect Pitch."Sorry, but, as a musician and audio engineer, I've never met anyone who could perfectly identify a tone's frequency/musical note without having a reference tone.
You'll have to prove your assertion, or agree that it's anecdotal and unsubstantiated.
:)
Edits: 05/17/17
So, you tell me....
Anyway, I didn't mean to imply you aren't a good singer.
Edits: 05/17/17
:-)
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
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