Subject: SV: The climb of absolute pitch From: David Morris <dmorris@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 21:20:58 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>My condolences Pierre, It would seem unlikely that ageing would accelerate events in the auditory neural mechanism, that can be considered as a dynamic high pass filter (high frequency peripheral coding and slower when the black magic occurs and a neural process becomes a perceptual event). Therefore, the upwards slide is quite possibly peripheral and is perhaps related to gradual changes in cochlear homeostatic properties - just conjecture. I am grateful for this query as I realise that it answers one that I have always had about absolute pitch and other tuning systems. Be they real or perceptual, they must, I guess, disrupt the listening and therefore the AP blessing/curse.