On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 6:13 AM, torbenh <torbenh@gmx.de> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 02:33:13PM +0200, Atte André Jensen wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have quite good relative pitch, but not perfect pitch. By accident I
> stumbled upon some information that gave me the idea "why not give it a
> shot, it might be possible to pick it up". Please let's not go (too
> deep) into either "it can't be learned" or "it makes you unmusical".

my brother has this theory that those guys with perfect pitch
have a tinnitus and just use this fixed tone in their head to
make their relative pitch absolute :)

That assumes that that tinnitus is a constant pitch tinnitus ;-)

A more-hard-work approach may be to learn Chinese (see http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=speaking-tonal-languages )