22 Apr
2010
22 Apr
'10
7:43 p.m.
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:28:47 -0500
Charles Henry <czhenry(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:26 PM, ailo
<ailo.at(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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?
Steve.
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.