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Originally Posted by cmd612
Interesting point about pitch memory. I have noticed that songs I regularly play sound a bit weird at first if I do something like tune down a half step or put a capo in a different place than usual. I've never noticed it when someone else was playing something in an unusual key, though.
I've always thought of "perfect pitch" as something one either has or doesn't, but maybe it makes more sense to think of it as one extreme in the range of how good individuals' pitch memories are.
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My view too. There's a gulf between pitch memory (however good) and absolute pitch, but I think the latter is just the extreme top end of the same spectrum. It's like 20/20 vision, while the rest of us just see fuzzy. We're still seeing!