[Blindtlk] heredity, not blindness related

[Robert J Smith]

Hi all.  As far as blind people having perfect pitch. I have to say that I 
believe it's a heredity thing and not a blindness related thing.  My son 
has it and is sighted.  I am blind and I have it.  Very early one time I 
told my son to immitate the tone pitch I was going to hum and he did it 
spot on.  I hummed a couple of other notes and he caught them as well.  It 
may be that the blind people who have perfect pitch put more effort into 
cultivating their musical abilities than those who can see, and of course, 
we will be more noticed than those who can see.

Also, I have heard that none of the Beatles could read music.  I had heard 
this in actual Beatles documentary and interview programs so I believe it. 
 One of the guys said that if a song was written, the writer would play it 
to the rest of them and they learned it from that, and of course all of 
them could see.

It would be interesting to know what percentage of blind persons honestly 
had perfect pitch, and to make it totally clear what I mean, if someone 
plays a note on an instrument, the listener could immediately tell the 
player what musical note he / she had just played.  There are some people 
who can sing on key as far as singing a valid melody but they honestly 
can't tell what key they are singing in so musical ability isn't a yes-no 
thing, there seems to be varying degrees of it.  That's nmy two cents.

Bob Smith

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