>Struan:
>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.
Glove:
Ah, but it was your interest that allowed me to advance the notion in the
first place...
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. :-)
Glove:
Could it be that the two chaps you speak of actually had perfect pitch all
along? Also, using the hum of a refrigerator would seem to be the act of
relative pitch. If one truly possessed absolute pitch, no hum would be
required?
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