Teach Your Toddler Perfect Pitch

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on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @08:57AM

garthsundem writes "Diana Deutsch, president of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, says that perfect pitch can be trained — start early by labeling a keyboard with colors or animal stickers. Once you've paired tone with meaning, you can switch it later to note names, like A, B, C."

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A curse or a blessing? (Score:1)

by GillyGuthrie (1515855) writes:

It's debatable whether or not perfect pitch is a blessing or a curse. The Western tuning system (I can't speak for other tuning systems found in different cultures) is not perfect and in fact requires unconscious ear training before the music "makes sense." Ever listen to traditional Chinese music? It can sound pretty alien because our ears are not accustomed to their different method of slicing up an octave.
I read a great book in high school (given to me by my music teacher) called, "Temperament" and it
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  by garthsundem (1702946) writes:
  
  Ha! Spectacularly said! I remember hearing this discussion of tuning in college but would never have pulled it from the dark ages of freshman theory, nor said it as well. In fact, when I was there, Cornell had one of the country's best gamelan orchestras. Okay, I just checked and it's still there: http://music.cornell.edu/about-us/facilities-and-instruments/cornell-gamelan/ [cornell.edu] There were some rooms the students with perfect pitch avoided and this was certainly one of them (the other, I'm afraid was the room
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    by garthsundem (1702946) writes:
    
    BTW--is there any etiquette violation in suggesting you copy your comment to the GeekDad site as well? There's some good chat going and I'd love your comment included. (If this is in any way seen as trolling or other unsavoriness, please just forget I asked.)
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      by GillyGuthrie (1515855) writes:
      
      Thanks for the response and for giving your input from your college experience! I would enjoy being a part of a conversation at GeekDad, although I have not visited that site before. Can you give a URL for the particular discussion you mentioned?
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        by garthsundem (1702946) writes:
        
        Sure -- sorry for the delay: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/02/teach-your-toddler-perfect-pitch/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wiredgeekdad+(Blog+-+GeekDad) [wired.com]

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