[LAU] Developing perfect pitch

[Charles Henry]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Steve Fosdick <sjflists at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:28:47 -0500
> Charles Henry <czhenry at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:26 PM, ailo <ailo.at at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Another note on the subject:
>> > Some people who have had absolute pitch all their lives may find
>> > that when they get older their sence of pitch gets out of tune. I
>> > know this happened to guys like Alexander Glazunov (Russian
>> > composer) and Sviatoslav Richter (Russian pianist). How fun would
>> > that be?
>>
>> There's some explanation for that effect.  When aging, the basilar
>> membrane stiffens, which shifts the location where resonance occurs.
>>
>> Now, there's also the ongoing debate over place vs. rate theories of
>> pitch, where only the place theory would allow this explanation.
>
> Are we saying here that a given pitch resonates at a different place in
> the cochlea and therefore stimulates the nerves previously associated
> with a different pitch?

Correct.

>
> Steve.
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