re Perfect Pitch

[webster....@xerox.com]

>> Has anyone out there in NetLand bought The Perfect Pitch SuperCourse
>>that is advertised in KEYBOARD? Does it work? If it doesn't, will they
>>really give me my money back?
>
>Hahahaha! The first time I read this bulls***, I almost died laughing!
>While I think it is possible to do exercises and increase your
>sense of pitch correctness (ie. how close is tone B to tone A), simply
>reading a book and listening to tapes is NOT going to suddenly endow
>you with an inherited trait. (I believe perfect pitch was recently
>proven to be a genetic trait-- 0/1, you have it or you don't.)

As a student who went to the Eastman School of Music (where David Burge of the
"Perfect Pitch SuperCourse" is the chairman of the piano department), I knew
many fellow student who "developed" perfect pitch. I don't know if it was due
to Burge or not, but the way many did it was to note the pitch of certain songs
they always heard, or note that their refrigerator in their dormroom hums at
middle C.

marc webster