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After many years, I have decided that my computer plays back midi files at about a 443 tuning. (Meaning I have to tune 443 to be in tune) (I did not check all audio file types) I did not believe this for a long time because the difference was so small but I finally confirmed it using Audacity diagnostics.
Does anyone else tune other than 440 for any other or similar purpose ?
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David Burns said:
If I hear 440 then 443, I know one is higher than the other. If you just play one for me, I would be unable to tell if it was 440 or 443, of course I could guess, 50 50 shot! Can any of you identify one or the other just hearing one?
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Actually...I can't because playing w/ ears is very hard for me, because I can't tell any note by just hearing them that's why I always have my tuner, btw I'm using 443 because Pierre's violin is tuned in 443 :), Good luck anyways.

David,
My guess is that a person with perfect pitch would identify 440 as "A" and 443 as an "A" out of tune.....too high but not necessarily 443.
They would never think it was a "B" at 494.
The difference between 440 and 443 is 11.8 musical cents. Even I can hear 11.8 cents but, in my case, I would not be sure what the note is.
A good (old time) piano tuner is reported to be accurate to 10 cents and more recent studies say 5 cents. I'm not sure of the full abilities of someone like that.
In all my years I have only known one person who had perfect, perfect pitch. A young high school girl who played piano. She also may have been the best interpretive musician I ever heard and I'm not kiddin'

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Incidentally, I am finding that I am more and more able to look at a piece of music and hear the tune. I can identify a lot of music without a title. I think with a violin I often resort to relative pitch ( 3 rds, 5 ths, etc. )
I know that is small potatoes as talents go BUT what amazes me is that I could not do that years ago. I learned that somehow.
I guess this what untapped abilities are all about. Not apparent until used?
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