Greetings,
Glove:
"I do thank you, Struan, for allowing me to advance
this notion and for your continued interest in it."
It will be a sad day, Glove, when I become arbiter over what anyone is allowed to advance. As for
the interest, if someone says something interesting I tend to take notice. One thing at this stage
is that the thinking behind your analogy is sound but the analogy itself is suspect. I promise you
that perfect pitch can be learned, I've seen it done and have two friends who used not to have it
but developed it by continual practice. I myself see no value in it, having a well developed
relative pitch, although I have fooled a number of people into thinking that I do have perfect pitch
by listening to the 'hum' of household appliances and deducing the pitch from them. In England the
mains electricity is delivered at 50 cycles per second which means that any such appliance receiving
it vibrates on the pitch of 'G.' The rest is easy and nobody is any the wiser. Being an honest chap
I do let them into my secret but the musicians among the squad are welcome to use it as a party
trick. :-)
Struan
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Struan Hellier
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purified in the process."
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