? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: Perfect Pitch... #000000 00/00/00 00:00 AM Joined: Dec 0000 Posts: 00,000 Canada keystring Yikes! 00000 Post Club Member keystring Yikes! 00000 Post Club Member Joined: Dec 0000 Posts: 00,000 Canada Wr, imagine a colour wheel with its gradual shifting of colours, but there is an area you could call red, blue, yellow, green. You can see these colours and shades. Society decides to call one particular shade of red, "A", and you can see where yellow sits beside red. You don't call it yellow because of its position beside red, like the colour-blind people do - it is unmistakably yellow. But if A = 000 in that shade of red, you know they'll be calling a more orangy yellow "yellow". The colour spectrum is a constant. A dog remains a dog whether it's called "chien, Hund, dog, or kalb". In regards to equal temperament - these pitches are not mathematically fixed in an arbitrary manner. Musical tones are vibrations that work more or less well together and so sound more or less pleasant. Think of someone wearing a red skirt and purple blouse = "clash". *First* the sounds worked well together a particular way, *then* we created a system for arranging them and gave that system a name. Equal temperament is fixed blindly mathematically, and for ears who can hear, the combination of sounds is often "off". Two notes work together when they are played at the same time, but within the framework of a scale they also work together - in equal temperament they only "kind of" work together. The fine ear will hear that they don't quite fit. Equal temperament was invented because if you have a piano that is tuned to the pitches that fit together for one key, if you play music in another key with those fixed pitches, those combinations sound really bad instead of somewhat off. So we've chosen "somewhat off" and that is how the piano is tuned. I wonder how someone with very fine pitch sensitivity can stand playing the piano, or do they dampen their hearing? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Re: Perfect Pitch... #000000 00/00/00 00:00 AM Joined: Jan 0000 Posts: 000 Columbia/Westchester Counties ... C Copake Full Member Copake Full Member C Joined: Jan 0000 Posts: 000 Columbia/Westchester Counties ... 