Re: Pitch Memory (Rebecca Mercuri )

Subject: Re: Pitch Memory
From:    Rebecca Mercuri  <mercuri(at)GRADIENT.CIS.UPENN.EDU>
Date:    Wed, 9 Aug 1995 01:29:04 -0400

Regarding the pitch memory process, t know if anyone mentioned
(I'm a tad behind on emails) yet the fact that many people when
asked to sing a commercial or theme from a TV show, will sing it
in the "correct" key. Especially kids. You have to also figure
in the physical memory that people have related to the action of
matching a pitch. Pitch memory is more common than is indicated
by random (short term) tests. Also, people tend to do a lot of things
easily (math, swimming,...) until they get the idea that they are
supposed to be hard. Pitch memory is just one of these things.

Rebecca Mercuri.