Wes Crone wrote:

>I wonder sometimes if I have some form of absolute pitch.  It seems that
>no matter what I can always hear a G above middle C but I can't do the
>same with any other notes from the octave.  However, if asked to sing a
>different note without hearing anything, I can hear the g in my head and
>then sing any other note by interval relationship.  If asked to sing a B
>flat I can hear the G and then sing the note a minor third above or major
>sixth below.  I know that *this* is not absolute pitch as I am deriving the
>tones from the single G whih I CAN hear.  What I would like to know is just
>what kind of absolute/relative/perfect pitch is this.  I just tell people
>I have *imperfect* pitch!

I have something similar.  I call it "relative pitch with pitch memory".
After twenty something years of playing cello I have internalized the
tuning "A" and can pull it out anytime I am awake and functioning.  Then I
get other notes from intervals.  I also have a few other notes I remember
from a college a cappella choir, but the "A" is the most dependable.

This means that if someone asks me what a note is, I can figure it out,
but I do not have the instant answer people with so called "perfect" pitch
have.

It works for this amateur.

Ken McGuire
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