keeping the beat

In comp.dsp Jerry Avins <jya@ieee.org> wrote:

(snip)
> When a group sings "Happy Birthday to You", the members usually have no 
> trouble starting in the same key. That key seems to vary from 
> neighborhood to neighborhood.

> Most people have no difficulty knowing whether a dime or a nickel 
> dropped on a hard surface. That can't be due to relative pitch if only 
> one coin drops.

> I think that (untrained) perfect pitch is more widespread than commonly 
> believed.

Someone did a study on it, with a web site that would play notes
and collect statistics on how well people did.  I don't remember
the results, but it might not be hard to find.

-- glen

On 9/2/2011 12:18 PM, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> In comp.dsp Jerry Avins<jya@ieee.org>  wrote:
>
> (snip)
>> When a group sings "Happy Birthday to You", the members usually have no
>> trouble starting in the same key. That key seems to vary from
>> neighborhood to neighborhood.
>
>> Most people have no difficulty knowing whether a dime or a nickel
>> dropped on a hard surface. That can't be due to relative pitch if only
>> one coin drops.
>
>> I think that (untrained) perfect pitch is more widespread than commonly
>> believed.
>
> Someone did a study on it, with a web site that would play notes
> and collect statistics on how well people did.  I don't remember
> the results, but it might not be hard to find.

I have perfect pitch only when I'm stressed or half asleep. It comes and 
goes. Semitrained?

Jerry
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