a different pitch in the right ear than in the left ear (chen-gia tsai )


Subject: a different pitch in the right ear than in the left ear
From:    chen-gia tsai  <tsai.cc(at)LYCOS.COM>
Date:    Fri, 28 Oct 2005 21:58:45 -0500

Dear List, I am interested in composer's illness. Due to otosyphilis, Bed&#345;ich Smetana discovered that the tones of the higher octave had a different pitch in his right ear than in the left ear. (Neumayr 1997:167) Does this suggest that pitch is extracted at the level of the cochlear nucleus? I wonder if this effect can be related to the pitch shift effect caused by carbamazepine. (See http://www.auditory.org/mhonarc/2004/msg00814.html) Reference Neumayr, A. (1997). Music and medicine. Vol. 3, Chopin, Smetana, Tchaikovsky, Mahler: Notes on their lives, works, and medical histories. Trans. by D.J. Parent. Bloomington, Medi-Ed Press. Best, Chen-Gia Tsai ---------------- Post-doc. fellow, Department of Otolaryngology, National Taiwan University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taiwan -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10


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