[Blindtlk] heredity, not blindness related

[Michael]

I tend to think it is acquired.  I do know that I have perfect pitch and my 
parents can't play a radio.  I had near perfect vision until 12 years ago 
and lost my sight two years ago.  When I was ten, the kid next door started 
playing the trumpet in the band and another kid down the street began the 
drums.  So at that age I had this image of the three of us playing a drum , 
bugle, and fife.  So I began the flute at that age and over the years 
learned nearly every woodwind instrument, the guitar, and played 
professionally and ran the sound system for a production show.  So I tend to 
think it is the millions of scales pounded out in the practice room that did 
it for me.  I also know that when I am away from my guitars, my ear tends to 
become lazy.

Michael
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert J Smith" <rsmith247 at csc.com>
To: <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 7:42 AM
Subject: [Blindtlk] heredity, not blindness related


> 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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