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You will probably claim it's not "real" perfect pitch, but many people use their tinnitus to help them. They identified their ring as having, for example, F#, and suddenly their relative pitch became absolute.

by jpfromlondon1 days ago|

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I've seen nothing to convince me that "absolute pitch" is anything other than relative pitch with excellent recall or persistent observation of pitch.

by xdertz1 days ago|

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I agree. I can tune a guitar to within a half a semitone of accuracy without reference just from knowing how the open strings are supposed to sound after 20 years of playing.

by williamdclt1 days ago|

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> knowing how the open strings are supposed to sound

well that's the whole question isn't it? If you know how an open string is supposed to have, that's what people call absolute pitch?

by NobodyNada1 days ago|

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Most people without absolute pitch have some level of "pitch memory", but it's not comprehensive or reliable. For instance, if you ask people to sing a pop song, they're significantly more likely than chance to sing it in the original key.

I know the Super Mario Bros. theme starts on an E, so I can identify an unknown pitch by recalling that theme and comparing using relative pitch. But that's quite a slow and unintuitive process, and it's easy to make a mistake. People with absolute pitch just hear the pitch without having to "recall" a reference note to compare to like that.

by argee1 days ago|

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I don't have perfect pitch (never trained in it) but I've played violin a lot (started in college) and I can hear the G-ness, D-ness, A-ness, or E-ness of a note. I do have to be actually trying to listen though, except for if they are G3, D4, A4, or E5.

So I have the latter, but not the former (i.e., no perfect pitch). The difference is, I can choose not to observe it. It reminds me of how I've studied Japanese for 15 years, but I can still sometimes choose not to read certain kanji if I glance at a legible word — the same is not true for English, if I see something even for a split second I've already read it.

by jpfromlondon13 hours ago|

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You don't really have relative perfect pitch because as you say, you can recognise the G-ness of a note I assume without reference.

If anything I think this reinforces what I'm alluding to.

by Tade01 days ago|

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Also your teeth don't change too much in adulthood save for cavities and the like, so if you hum, they'll resonate in a rather stable frequency.

by Dilettante_1 days ago|

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Now there's a hack in the most delightful sense of the word

by sudo_cowsay1 days ago|

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It’s not “real” perfect pitch. It’s more like training and memorizing. It doesn’t come as naturally as it does for kids.

by agos1 days ago|

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isn't perfect pitch for kids also training and memorizing? the learning method from the original post surely suggests so

by casey21 days ago|

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It's just like how foreigners will never truly learn a language; racist BS. Plenty of tonedef adults get into Julliard and can play circles around people with perfect pitch no matter how much they practice music.

by sudb1 days ago|

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There was an interesting study that I attempted to enroll in (but unfortunately was screened out by both age and childhood instrument learning) that was looking at psilocybin potentially giving adults the ability to acquire perfect pitch:

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/psilocybin-research-pitch-stu...

by nosioptar1 days ago|

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Yeah, the stuff on the repo is bullshit because it's ai slop.

I learned perfect pitch well after six. I know others who have too.