From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Wed Apr 10 2002 - 09:43:57 MDT
-------Original Message-------
From: extropians@extropy.org
Date: 10 April 2002 04:53:37
To: extropians@extropy.org
Subject: Re: Body mods for singers
Check out this one:
http://www.visualizationsoftware.com/gram/gramdl.html
It has a pitch detector mode and provides realtime feedback.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Emlyn O'regan" <oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 10:58 PM
Subject: RE: Body mods for singers
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: spike66 [mailto:spike66@ATTBI.com]
> > Sent: Monday, 8 April 2002 2:48 PM
> > To: extropians@extropy.org
> > Subject: Re: Body mods for singers
> >
> >
> > Emlyn O'regan wrote:
> [snip]
> > >...I think that if you trained with something like that
> > >for a few weeks, you'd achieve perfect pitch.
> > >
> > Emlyn it takes years to develop perfect pitch, if ever. This device
> > might help, but a few weeks is surely a stretch.
>
> It takes years to develop perfect pitch because we don't have the right
> tools. If you could hum a note and see it, you'd be well on your way. You
> can learn perfect pitch, it's all about feedback and practice, as far as I
> can see.
>
> Maybe a few weeks is a stretch.
All kids I've tested under four years of age seem to have perfect pitch
(that is, if you play them a note and tell them what it's called, they'll
find it again amongst other notes, or if you just play the note, they'll
tell you what it's called.If you ask them to sing it, this takes practice,
but they knbow when it's wrong and when they've got it right.) This ability
starts to go as soon as they start learning to read & write, UNLESS they don
t learn to read & write until after age 10. Any explanation for this, or
alternative data, anyone? Maybe the bit of the brain being used in perfect
pitch detection is stage-specific, like language?
Ramonsky
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