<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 6:13 AM, torbenh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:torbenh@gmx.de">torbenh@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 02:33:13PM +0200, Atte André Jensen wrote:<br>
> Hi<br>
><br>
> I have quite good relative pitch, but not perfect pitch. By accident I<br>
> stumbled upon some information that gave me the idea "why not give it a<br>
> shot, it might be possible to pick it up". Please let's not go (too<br>
> deep) into either "it can't be learned" or "it makes you unmusical".<br>
<br>
</div>my brother has this theory that those guys with perfect pitch<br>
have a tinnitus and just use this fixed tone in their head to<br>
make their relative pitch absolute :)<br></blockquote><br></div>That assumes that that tinnitus is a constant pitch tinnitus ;-)<br><br>A more-hard-work approach may be to learn Chinese (see <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=speaking-tonal-languages">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=speaking-tonal-languages</a> )<br>