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Re:Show HN: Perfect Pitch Ear Training by lhorie on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:50PM (#24874643)
I'm curious how perfect pitch works in terms of temperaments and tunings standards. For example, do they get bothered by regular guitar over microtonal ones? (those weird guitars w/ extra mini-frets)[1]

I'm really fascinated by our ability to perceive relative pitch even without training. See, for example, how "detuning" by a few cents in lo-fi hip hop provides a very distinct feel to the genre, compared to playing the same tune in standard equal temperament tuning.

[1] https://www.thatericalper.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/max...

Re:Show HN: Perfect Pitch Ear Training by mhh__ on Friday October 23, 2020 @06:26PM (#24874967)
Jacob Collier can be accurate to a few cents, microtonal or not (I assume he thinks in terms of offset to the nearest ET pitch)