Timeline for Why do people with perfect pitch perceive tunes not in 440 Hz out of tune?
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| Sep 28, 2021 at 14:42 | answer | added | Howard | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 31, 2017 at 13:32 | comment | added | usernameiwantedwasalreadytaken | Best explanation I've ever heard: youtu.be/AxEmaBqjUmY?t=270 | |
| Apr 2, 2017 at 13:31 | vote | accept | StefanH | ||
| Mar 9, 2017 at 23:13 | answer | added | zoplonix | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 9, 2017 at 17:06 | comment | added | Nobody | I know someone who has perfect pitch in the sense that they hear the musical notes (i.e. not Hertz directly), but unconsciously switches back and forth between A=440Hz and A=415Hz depending on what they used more, lately. There is nothing special about 440Hz. (should this be an answer?) | |
| Mar 9, 2017 at 16:43 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 9, 2017 at 9:43 | comment | added | David Richerby | Your analogy actually works perfectly. The point is that many people would notice that the new monitor was slightly off. In the real world, monitors are all slightly different and people who care about colour rendition buy a device to calibrate their monitors to produce specific absolute colours, just like people tune musical instruments to produce specific absolute pitches. If your monitor is miscalibrated, colours will look slightly wrong and, for example, colours on the screen won't match colours on a print. If you're a publisher or photographer, that monitor would indeed be hard to use. | |
| Mar 9, 2017 at 9:22 | comment | added | Luaan | Perfect pitch is defined by this - it's the ability to accurately judge the frequency of a tone (or sound). Why would you be surprised that people who can judge absolute frequency accurately would notice that the frequency is different than it's supposed to be? That's the whole point of perfect pitch :) Your TV analogy is not very good, since colours change all the time depending on lighting, so our eyes and brains are very capable at maintaining "correct" colours (the good old "yellow/blue?! dress" is an extreme example, as are many colour/contrast based optical illusions). | |
| S Mar 9, 2017 at 7:51 | history | suggested | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Copy edited (e.g. ref. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertz> and <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/let%27s#Contraction>).
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| Mar 9, 2017 at 4:51 | comment | added | Dawood ibn Kareem | To a person with perfect pitch, the phrase "out of tune" is ambiguous. It can either mean "out of tune with itself - so it sounds bad" or it can mean "played at a pitch that isn't close to A=440 (plus or minus a whole number of semitones) - so it sounds musically nice but vaguely irritating". Exactly how irritating the latter type of "out of tune" is depends very much on the listener. | |
| Mar 8, 2017 at 10:27 | comment | added | user207421 | As stated, your question merely embodies a tautology. Not being cursed with perfect pitch I am inclined to dismiss the premiss of your question as basess: such people might experience the total pitch of the performace as out of tune, but I see no reason why it should be perceived as out of tune within itself. Unclear what you're actually asking here. | |
| Mar 8, 2017 at 2:51 | history | protected | Dom♦ | ||
| Mar 8, 2017 at 1:58 | answer | added | Martin Argerami | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 20:20 | answer | added | David Schwartz | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 17:10 | answer | added | Cort Ammon | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 15:57 | answer | added | Laurence | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 15:37 | answer | added | timovdw | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 13:17 | answer | added | Dekkadeci | timeline score: 45 | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 12:44 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackMusic/status/839094369529516032 | ||
| Mar 7, 2017 at 12:07 | answer | added | Tetsujin | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 11:05 | answer | added | JimM | timeline score: 22 | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 10:51 | answer | added | cloudfeet | timeline score: 12 | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 10:26 | history | asked | StefanH | CC BY-SA 3.0 |