Subject: The climb of absolute pitch From: Pierre Divenyi <pdivenyi@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:10:30 -0800 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --B_3437032234_7862058 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Hi, Several older persons who have had absolute pitch in their young years experience perceiving a pitch by at least a half-tone (minor second) higher than what it actually is =8B a phenomenon that the French calls the "climb of the tuning fork" ("montee du diapason"). Since I am one of those unfortunat= e individuals, I have been wondering what its physiological explanation is. Can anyone on the list offer one? -Pierre Divenyi --B_3437032234_7862058 Content-type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><head></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: s= pace; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:= 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div= >Several older persons who have had absolute pitch in their young years expe= rience perceiving a pitch by at least a half-tone (minor second) higher than= what it actually is — a phenomenon that the French calls the "climb o= f the tuning fork" ("montee du diapason"). Since I am one of those unfortuna= te individuals, I have been wondering what its physiological explanation is.= Can anyone on the list offer one?</div><div><br></div><div>-Pierre Divenyi<= /div></body></html> --B_3437032234_7862058--