Subject: Re: absolute pitch -- gender differences From: Thomas G Brennan <g_brennantg(at)TITAN.SFASU.EDU> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:26:01 -0500At least in music, absolute pitch is close but not perfect pitch. It may be effected by different instruments or sounds or the quality of those sounds but the person will always be close to the correct pitch or in the worst cast off by a fifth. Generally when I deal with students or those I'm training I can expect them to get close to a note particularly of a musical instrument but probably not be able to tell the difference between a 435, 440, or 444 A without some reference. With perfect picth there would be no problem telling such differences and I have often seen people with perfect pitch get within one beat when hearing frequency and how the sound is made seems to effect them not at all. As an aside, when I've done tinnitus testing it has always been far easier when working with a person with musical training although the one time I worked with someone with perfect pitch it was quite frustrating because she had so much trouble understanding that sounds needed to be close but did not have to match beat for beat. Tom Tom Brennan KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html