Re: To Ear is perfect?

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

Funny.  I believe it's spelled tinnitus, by the way.  Reminds me of the 
opening scene in the movie "The Gods Must be Crazy" where the woman says 
to the person she is sitting next to in the cafeteria, "Is this noise in 
my head bothering you?"
Lorele

allen watsky wrote:

> Tennitius ?
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>     ----- Original Message -----
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>     From: Lori Cahan-Simon <mailto:l_cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org>
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>     To: World music from a Jewish slant <mailto:jewish-music (at) 
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>     Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 7:14 PM
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>     Subject: Re: To Ear is perfect?
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>     What about if you have a certain tone embedded in your brain, and
>     can go from there to figure out the other notes?  It is not a note
>     given from outside, but from inside.  What would you call that?
>     Lorele
>
>     BarMusProd (at) aol(dot)com wrote:
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>>Dear Richard,
>>
>>In a message dated 1/19/02 12:47:56 PM, schoeller (at) mediaone(dot)net 
>>writes:
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>>>The alternative to that would be tone matching.  Where you can't find
>>>the note without a reference but given a reference pitch you can find
>>>the note and its harmonics.
>>>
>>>From an old theory teacher who was once married to a perfect pitcher--this 
>>>is 
>>more commonly called "relative pitch". That was all I had....
>>
>>Best wishes,
>>Steve
>>
>>Steve Barnett
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