Play a note, any note — on your piano, your harp, your synthesizer, your kazoo. University of Delaware junior David Krall can tell you exactly which note you’re playing and which octave it lives in.

If you're a musician, this sounds too good to be true: University of Chicago psychologists have been able to train some adults to develop the prized musical ability of absolute pitch, and the training ...

A rare ability to distinguish any musical note without difficulty — absolute pitch is a fascinating trait known for its rarity and utility in music. Despite its reputation, its lack of scientific ...

Absolute pitch is an ability rarely found in the population. Also known as ‘perfect pitch’, it refers to the ability to name a musical note (like C or C-sharp) just by hearing a tone. Importantly, ...

When Mariah Carey belts out a glass-shattering high note, it's impossible for most listeners to identify the tone. Not for her. Carey possesses perfect or absolute pitch (AP), the ability to identify ...

People with perfect pitch love to tout the fact that they have perfect pitch. That's understandable: Our culture has long placed tremendous amount of value on this "gift," idealizing it as a "rare and ...

Absolute pitch (AP) is the rare ability to identify or produce a musical note without any external reference. This phenomenon has long served as a model for investigating the interplay of genetic ...

SOME time ago there appeared in the newspapers a story that brought an old problem into new focus. According to that story, French musicians were making an organized appeal to the world to stop the ...