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Pitch Perception Skewed By Modern Tuning
The feed deliverers us news of research suggesting that the use of A as the universal tuning frequency has made our ears less discerning of the notes immediately around it. Here's the abstract from PNAS describing research with people possessing the rare quality of "absolute pitch."
Yes, but it was delivered orally in the key of A, so the discrepancy was not noticed.
Ice Cream has no bones.
I have an enormous desire to see a comic book cover of Superman giving a concert with his superguitar and taunting us all with how we can't hear his beautiful music, like the dick he is.
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