As mentioned on another thread, my once acute sense of relative pitch was destroyed by years of playing a butchered uilleann pipe chanter (someone had tried to “upgrade” what I think was a C sharp to D and hadn’t quite got there - or at least some of the notes didn’t survive the journey).
So latterly, particularly since I play mainly with fiddlers and fluters who still distrust my pitch, I have taken to checking my relatively new Rogge concert set with an electronic tuner, which I have also used for the drones. Intriguingly, after painstakingly tuning each drone individually with the tuner, I inevitably have to go back and tune them all slightly flat of what the tuner tells me to do, although it is registering the A, top and even bottom D as perfectly pitched.
i’m a perfect pitch..
it’s really bugging me if the whistle is out of tune..
u would just think it sounds bad.
so i think i know ur situation
On 2002-07-26 09:27, christina wrote:
i’m a perfect pitch..
it’s really bugging me if the whistle is out of tune..
u would just think it sounds bad.
so i think i know ur situation
I’m guessing you use txt msgs a lt, Christina? 
… and if I were you, Christina, I wouldn’t try “I’m a perfect pitch” as a chat-up line in a noisy pub.
[ This Message was edited by: Roger O’Keeffe on 2002-07-26 09:49 ]
This might be a bit OT, but…
I’ve been intensely focusing on fiddle lately, and have been using an electric tuner as a reference for practicing fingerings and hitting notes on pitch.
Im noticing that my ear is always registering notes sharp, i.e., Im always playing a bit flat, which sounds right to my ear but the tuner says I’m playing flat. I guess I trust this $40.00 electric wonder, but should I get a tuning fork just to be sure? How reliable are the standard tuners out there in your collective experience?
The](http://www.geocities.com/whistleannex/index.html%22%3EThe) Whistle Annex, Home of the Chiffboard Matrix
[ This Message was edited by: DazedinLA on 2002-07-26 11:10 ]
On 2002-07-26 09:43, Roger O’Keeffe wrote:
… and if I were you, Christina, I wouldn’t try “I’m a perfect pitch” as a chat-up line in a noisy pub.
LMAO! very good one, Roger. Nothing like a noisy pub for a bit of misunderstanding.
I’m not afflicted with perfect pitch (more correctly called “absolute pitch”…and trust me, the people I know who are definitely describe it as an affliction, especially when the conductor decides to have us sing music in a different key than the one in which it is written. For a person with absolute pitch, it’s like being asked to do a simultaneous translation).
I do have excellent relative pitch. When I speak of my whistles being “out of tune,” I’m talking about certain notes being noticeably sharp or flat relative to others in the scale , to the point where it’s not possible to correct by blowing or fingering a little differently. I’m not anal about perfect intervals, but when a note is clearly wrong, it makes me cringe.
Redwolf