Piano World Home Page Forums Our Most Popular Forums Pianist Corner Does anyone here have perfect pitch?

I used to be able to do exactly that. I knew that my lowest note was E. But now, because of allergies that make me be like having different degrees of a cold at whatever time, and maybe because of entering middle age and stuff ....I never know what my lowest note is, so that's out the window.

Wow, another perfect pitch thread!

Yes, I have perfect pitch, and I've taught a bunch of students who have perfect pitch. Apparently if you started music lessons young and you speak a tonal language at home, you're more likely to develop (or retain?) perfect pitch.

There is definitely a "range" or "spectrum" of perfect pitch abilities. Next time you run into someone who claims to have perfect pitch, play him/her a tone cluster of 5 random notes. Let's see how many notes can be identified correctly. If 5 is too hard, try 4, then 3, then 2, then 1.

When I played viola, I used to try to hear the tuning fork in my mind before actually triggering the fork. Often I was pretty close (about 1/4 note off). I never tried to learn the other notes. I assume this could be called one-note-perfect pitch

I can always sing a D but don't know if this means I have perfect pitch. I have perfect D pitch at least