Re:Show HN: Perfect Pitch Puzzle – a musical Wordle daily ea...
by mkl on Friday November 24, 2023 @07:04PM
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It is technically possible to acquire as an adult, but challenging: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18227794, also https://news.uchicago.edu/story/acquiring-perfect-pitch-may-...
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Re:Show HN: Perfect Pitch Puzzle – a musical Wordle daily ea...
by dwringer on Saturday November 25, 2023 @10:38AM
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I've always had great relative pitch but not "perfect pitch"; hearing a note out of the blue without any known context and being able to name it was always a struggle for me, but I did manage to do it first try on this quiz. Different timbres make it easier or harder in my experience. I'm also pretty sure the only reason I can do it now is because with age I got some hearing loss that's not evenly distributed across frequencies so now the difference between different notes is more pronounced.