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Speaking as someone with perfect pitch, or as I prefer to call it "almost dependable tonal recall, recognition and production" - if you have this attribute, you cannot lose it. Perfect pitch refers to the ability to name or produce a specific tone WITHOUT reference to an aurally given and named pitch. That is, if you can hear a note, "in the air" so to speak, without needing to refer to a piano or pitch pipe (or, if you are a clever cheat, a song on the radio you hear in the distance whose key you happen to know!), then you have "perfect" or "absolute" pitch. Now, many musicians, and most or all highly skilled or experienced classical musicians, have probably acquired a highly developed and reliable skill level of relative pitch - where they can operate quickly and literately with sheet and aural music based on a mastery of familiarity and functionality with intervalic relationships between tones, either melodic (one after the other), or harmonic (sounded together - a chord or partial chord, or even a tonal cluster). Basically, relative pitch is akin to being able to read and work with music as well as you do with *verbal* language. You know your letters, and as such you can read nearly effortlessly. Perfect pitch is more analogous to recognizing colors or the air temperature - with a level of precision equal to the tonal system your experience or culture uses - in Western music, that would be 12 semi-tones per octave (like, say, from middle C to the next C either above or below it - they "sound the same" but one or the other is "lower" or "higher". A person who can read and hear and listen to music as easily as he reads a book or listens to speech, has decent relative pitch. A person who can name a pitch "as if naming a color, or going outside and saying, accurately, that the air temperature is 68 degrees F - WITHOUT NEEDING to look at a thermometer" has "perfect pitch".

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Does Frankie Valli have perfect pitch?

Frankie Valli is known for his exceptional vocal talent and distinctive falsetto, but there is no public confirmation that he has perfect pitch. Perfect pitch, or absolute pitch, is the ability to identify or recreate a musical note without any reference tone. While Valli's musical abilities are impressive, specific details about his pitch recognition skills have not been widely documented.


Is Niall Horan a dad?

As of October 2023, Niall Horan is not a dad. He has been focused on his music career and personal projects. There have been no announcements or confirmed reports about him having children.


When was standard pitch in music agreed?

The US music industry suggested A440 Hz as the standard pitch in 1925 and it was adopted throughout the US in 1926. In 1955, the International Organization for Standardization adopted A440 Hz as the world tuning standard. However, it had been suggested and used much earlier than that in isolated areas. The Paris Conservatoire adopted A440 as the "modern concert pitch" as early as 1812.


How do you find the pitch of a note?

Well, the simple answer would be... "play it". On the other hand, if you are referring to the phenomenon known as "perfect" or "absolute" pitch, there are competing theories about whether it is attainable through practice alone, especially as an adult. There have been studies done that indicate a possible genetic predisposition in some people towards having a long memory for pitches--essentially being able to pull them out of the air anytime once they have learned to identify them, at a moment's notice, and without the need for a pitch pipe or instrument to assist them. That having been said, there are also a great number of examples of musicians around the world who are able to reproduce certain pitches themselves, with consistently high accuracy, that they tend to hear frequently on their respective instruments (the tuning pitch of "A" for a violinist, for example, or middle "C" for a pianist). It really all depends on one's definition of what constitutes "perfect". Safe to say, though, it is not a skill found in a majority of people--even amongst musicians, who tend to rely more heavily upon strong "relative pitch" (being able to find pitches quickly after hearing an initial "reference" pitch or pitches). The debate rages on, but the jury is still out...


How did phonograph impacted in negative way?

phonograph have impacted in an negative way ,becausepeople have been having ear damageding .because of the music being to loud

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