Timeline for Perfect pitch before musical training
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| Mar 11, 2023 at 17:37 | comment | added | StefanH | Maybe when you can hack the phone: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joybubbles Great question btw! It surely has implications for research if you can tell someone has AP without requiring them to be able to use musical language. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 22:19 | answer | added | Dekkadeci | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 0:04 | comment | added | Richard | @ToddWilcox cf. my all-time favorite Onion article. | |
| Feb 24, 2021 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackMusic/status/1364364433829597192 | ||
| Feb 23, 2021 at 22:32 | answer | added | user73967 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 21:24 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | I once taught guitar to a 14 year old who had no idea that he had perfect pitch until our very last lesson. So one answer to how it manifests without musical training is, in some cases maybe it doesn't. There might be people who live entire lives with perfect pitch and no musical training who never realize that they have it. | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 21:00 | answer | added | chasly - supports Monica | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 20:40 | comment | added | Richard | I don't have AP, but anecdotally a colleague of mine who has it has said things like "it sounds like my son/daughter is developing pitch," meaning that their early musical training was solidifying this long-term pitch memory, but it apparently wasn't quite "perfect" yet. | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 20:37 | comment | added | Aaron | Also, Diana Deutsch has found evidence of perfect pitch among tone-language speakers, who consistently pronounce specific words at specific pitch levels. | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 20:36 | comment | added | Michael Curtis | @musicamante, I can see how perfect pitch isn't necessarily a big deal. All musically meaningful things are about relative pitch. | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 20:36 | comment | added | Aaron | Anecdotally, a younger sibling without training was able to sit at the piano and play the pieces being learned by an older sibling, always in the correct key. Another child with perfect pitch was, according to his mother, quite sensitive to out-of-tune music. | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 20:33 | comment | added | musicamante | [OT] My experience is that perfect pitch is more a damnation than a blessing... Including having to deal with people obsessed with their own perfect pitch ;-) | |
| Feb 23, 2021 at 20:31 | history | asked | Michael Curtis | CC BY-SA 4.0 |