Perfect Pitch?


Heard a prof from McGill University this am on the radio researching perfect pitch and its evil cousin tone deafness. He has devised ways of ascertaining if a person as such a gift even if that person is not a musician and, therefore, does not have the musical vocabulary to express their perceptions. Question: how many of you have perfect pitch and do so-called golden ears ipso facto have such a gift?
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I have it and I am partly happy with it and partly not. The good thing is that I can adjust to a higher pitched piano in a concert hall f.e.without being distracted too much. The great thing having perfect pitch is a deeper sense of listening INTO the music. Like looking at a very colorfull picture and being able to see all the little hints of different colors very precisely.
The drawback is that all the "historical" recorded or played stuff really is confusing at times when you know it should be b-minor and actually is b flat minor for your hearing. The worst is that it is impossible to sing or play different notes from those on the paper if you are making music. A written c has to be a c or you get crazy.
Dwudman - it depends on which occasion you listened to Hendrix. Sometimes he was only bearable when you were stoned - sometimes he was so brilliant that you didn't want to be. So Hendrix always was a tricky number.
Let's commemorate Noel Redding, the Experience's bass player, once again who died recently in Ardfield (near Clonakilty) Ireland. He was a neighbour to our summer cottage down there and we lost a real gentle soul and a great man.
May he rest in peace.