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Re:Show HN: Perfect Pitch Ear Training by sergeykish on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:18PM (#24873581)
I've heard a story of adult acquiring perfect pitch [1]. He made a tool for Win32 platform years ago [2].

I play (hobby) harmonica and I feel them differently. I like dark tone of G (blues in D), bright and someone neutral tone of C, I have A and don't play it much. How can one explain this?

Do you experience Doppler effect on ski elevator? It was devastating. Can it be that harmonica trains ears to find a hole and bend notes? But any fretles instrument should have same requirement (violin).

Some people claim adults can't learn languages, while in reality we lack not neuron plasticity but time, patience, culture. Maybe skill learned by adult and child is different but serves same function. It is fine by me to learn "perfect ear equivalent". At least I can train myself and play with a kid, maybe he would acquire this skill in full potential.

[1] http://www.aruffo.com/eartraining/

[2] http://www.aruffo.com/eartraining/software/

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Re:Show HN: Perfect Pitch Ear Training by losvedir on Saturday October 24, 2020 @08:42PM (#24883002)
Does Aruffo ever claim to have acquired perfect pitch? I followed his enormous blog as it was happening 10-15 years ago (I'm even quoted in it :)), and it was utterly fascinating to see his journey, but I never thought he actually successfully got perfect pitch.
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Re:Show HN: Perfect Pitch Ear Training by sergeykish on Sunday October 25, 2020 @08:42AM (#24885866)
I didn't check, maybe it is foolish, I remember him internalizing F#, played with software, have not reproduced. Lately I've noticed I can reproduce G3 (from playing harmonica), that looks like a good start.

In the linked above dissertation [1] AP have 80% accuracy (C4 to B5).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24874425

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