Hi everyone
I hope everyone is having a good day. We were recently having a conversation in Chat and perfect pitch came up. We all agreed that we thought Patsy Cline had perfect pitch. Perfect pitch is a music thing obviously and there are two types. One is the ability to name notes played, on the piano for instance, without looking at the piano. I've known two people who could do this. The other is the ability to hear the note in tuneand perhaps play/sing it in tune. "in tune" is commonly referred to as A=440, frequency that is. All tones are at some frequency. My background is music and I have the second type of perfect pitch. I've always felt that Karen Carpenter and Barbara Striesand had perfect pitch, the second type at least. Please comment on this/make corrections . Can anyone think of another singer with perfect pitch?
Hi! Here in the Uk we use perfect pitch to mean the ability to recognise a note by listening to in isolation. I don't have it, but if you asked me to sing a g I'd be hopeless, though if you played me a c first then i could find g. Someone with pp could sing or recognise the g straight off. This can be great for keeping in tune, though I've known musicians call it a curse: if an instrument or a muscician isn't absolutely in tune it sounds"wrong". Within the jazz and classical fields in UK I think some people do have it but definately not all: without asking them I'm not sure how you'd find out. In a professional choir i knew only one member had it.
Interestingly our sense of colour works differently: we can recognise red without having to see blue first.
I realise i haven't answered your question at all! Hope it is of some interest though. Apologies!
Thea