[Dixielandjazz] Mozart Effect - Redux

Charles Suhor csuhor at zebra.net
Sun Jun 5 16:04:51 PDT 2005


On Jun 5, 2005, at 3:06 PM, OArkas at aol.com wrote:

> An interesting question on "perfect pitch" might be:  "What about 
> people raised with the folkloric "natural scale" or with scales that 
> are now considered "high pitch" or anywhere that A does not equal 440?
>  Would a person with perfect pitch in our America (western world) 
> society today have had perfect pitch in a different world/time?  
> Probably I would guess.
>  Best regards,
>  John
>

Your inference sounds right to me, John. And nothing more mysterious 
than an outstandingly keen musical memory, heritable or not, would seem 
to be operating.--Charlie Suhor



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