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Topic: For people with perfect pitch, what age did you start learning and playing?  (Read 2183 times)

Offline drsmoo

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just curious

Offline thalbergmad

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Offline cygnusdei

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just curious

I can tell the key signature when listening to piano music, provided that the piano is tuned properly. But for baroque music, where A is sometimes 410 instead of 440 Hz, I'm completely thrown off. Is this considered perfect pitch?

Offline gruffalo

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starting playing piano when i was 4 and singing when i was 6. im not sure when i discovered it (was too young for me to remember), but i definitely knew of it by the time i was singing.


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Offline drsmoo

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because I only started playing music at 15 (though I was writing songs in my heard for a long time, I just didn't have an instrument)  I guess I missed the window for perfect pitch.

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7 (I think).
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Offline nanabush

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Interested in discussing:

-Prokofiev Toccata
-Scriabin Sonata 2

Offline jre58591

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another resounding 7.
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Offline 28lorelei

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started learning at 5,
but listened to music before that

Offline amelialw

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singing before I turned 1
piano when I was 2& a half
then flute,piccolo& violin when I was a teen
J.S Bach Italian Concerto,Beethoven Sonata op.2 no.2,Mozart Sonatas K.330&333,Chopin Scherzo no.2,Etude op.10 no.12&Fantasie Impromptu

Offline richard black

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Piano at 7, recorder at about 6.
Instrumentalists are all wannabe singers. Discuss.

Offline gyzzzmo

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just curious... Do those people here think they have absolute pitch, or relative pitch? Or even know the difference?
1+1=11

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John 3:16

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Offline go12_3

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I don't know about perfect pitch but I always, as a child, sang and played piano, it came
naturally to me.  I have an inner ear about pitch after I learned to play the violin.  I know
if a note is a tiny bit off and when I begin to play a piece, I can hear the frst note  in my mind , whereas on the piano the notes are already there ready to play.
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Offline invictious

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Cello at 7.
Piano at 8.

As far as I can recall...

(I am totally hopeless at piano though)
Bach - Partita No.2
Scriabin - Etude 8/12
Debussy - L'isle Joyeuse
Liszt - Un Sospiro

Goal:
Prokofiev - Toccata

>LISTEN<

Offline birba

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In the latest book on Martha Argerich, she claims she does NOT have perfect pitch!  And not only that, she doesn't realize the key she's playing in at times.  After performing the 24 preludes once in concert, someone commented on the magisterial playing of the g major prelude and she couldn't at the moment remember which one it was!!!!!!!!  ;D
What a woman.  Love her!
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