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Re:Show HN: Perfect Pitch Puzzle – a musical Wordle daily ea... by ska on Friday November 24, 2023 @05:26PM (#38409077)
I remember reading a paper ages ago that claimed perfect pitch rates were higher in populations whose 1st language was tonal - if true that's support that it is to some degree evidence of learn-ability, but maybe only extremely young (even pre-language).
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Re:Show HN: Perfect Pitch Puzzle – a musical Wordle daily ea... by mkl on Friday November 24, 2023 @07:05PM (#38409775)
This is well-established: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_pitch
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Re:Show HN: Perfect Pitch Puzzle – a musical Wordle daily ea... by anon291 on Saturday November 25, 2023 @12:44PM (#38415030)
There's good evidence that adults can learn. Studies show that adults who practice everyday achieve significantly better than random scores on tests of perfect pitch.
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