Subject: Re: The climb of absolute pitch From: Brian Gygi <bgygi@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:19:28 +0000 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>----=_vm_0011_W6705228638_29504_1354267168 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Maybe it's the world that has changed and not you - it got lower (i.e., d= arker, sadder) Brian Gygi, Ph.D. -----Original Message----- From: Pierre Divenyi [mailto:pdivenyi@xxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 11:10 AM To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx Subject: The climb of absolute pitch Hi, Several older persons who have had absolute pitch in their young years ex= perience 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= of the tuning fork" ("montee du diapason"). Since I am one of those unfo= rtunate individuals, I have been wondering what its physiological explana= tion is. Can anyone on the list offer one? -Pierre Divenyi ----=_vm_0011_W6705228638_29504_1354267168 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html>Maybe it's the world that has changed and not you - it got lower (i= .e., darker, sadder)<br><div><font face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"2"> </fo= nt></div> Brian Gygi, Ph.D.<div><font color=3D"#0000ff" face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"2"= ></font> </div> <blockquote style=3D"PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0= 000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><font face=3D"Tahoma" size=3D"2">----= -Original Message-----<br><b>From:</b> Pierre Divenyi [mailto:pdivenyi@xxxxxxxx= RMA.STANFORD.EDU]<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 29, 2012 11:10 AM<br= ><b>To:</b> AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx<br><b>Subject:</b> The climb of abso= lute pitch<br><br></font><table id=3D"201179" border=3D"0" height=3D"400"= width=3D"100%"><tbody><tr><td valign=3D"top" width=3D"100%"><div>Hi,</di= v><div><br></div><div>Several older persons who have had absolute pitch i= n their young years experience perceiving a pitch by at least a half-tone= (minor second) higher than what it actually is ? a phenomenon that the F= rench calls the "climb of the tuning fork" ("montee du diapason"). Since = I am one of those unfortunate individuals, I have been wondering what its= physiological explanation is. Can anyone on the list offer one?</div><di= v><br></div><div>-Pierre Divenyi</div> </td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote></html> ----=_vm_0011_W6705228638_29504_1354267168--