My experience has been that Absolute Pitch may not be the panacea that those who don't have the ability may think it to be.

Relative Pitch, on the other hand, is what musicians and composers ahould strive to develop in full.

The reason I say that is because you will not always encounter a musical event that is tuned to A-440 - and that can be a detriment for the Absolute Pitch person, to put it mildly.

The US telephone dial tone consists of two tones at the same time, one is indeed an F, but the other tone is an A above the F.

A Major 3rd in key of F, but savvy guitarists can use the dial tone to tune their A string to 440.


--Mac