Are you tonedeaf?

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Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!

Yep. I've also known two people with true perfect pitch back in my conservatory days. Frankly, I don't believe either one of these guys. I'd probably believe good or very good relative pitch, but perfect pitch... no, I just don't buy it. The two that I knew, you could name a note and they could sing it, no hesitation, and be dead on, every single time. There's no "half step" off, ever.

Try me. When I was at Eastman and we had sight-singing exams, I got all the melodies, but I had trouble with singing in solfegg (do re mi fa sol) because a note wasn't a "do" or a "ti" but it was a B or an Eb. That's how I thought of each note, and going out of my way to make the conversion to solfegg was a complete drag.

The only time I've gotten pitches incorrect was when somebody played a random glob on the piano and I might have confused a D in one octave with another in the upper or lower octave. These were 20-note clusters, so the mistake is understandable.