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toolsliveyesterday at 11:43 PM3 repliesview on HN

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.


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jpfromlondontoday at 8:14 AM

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

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Tade0today at 10:31 AM

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.

Dilettante_today at 7:18 AM

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