[Trombone-l] Perfect Pitch

[George Carr]

> It can be hard to just listen to a performance  by any group, be it
> college, high school, professional, and not tear the thing apart.  I
> sometimes envy people with no musical training.

I'm with you there; mistakes, especially, make a way bigger difference
to musicians than to untrained listeners: if a musician hears a gaffed
note or a pitch problem (or even bigger mistakes, like a missed
entrance or a missing fugue voice), it's cause for wincing, while many
untrained listeners don't notice, or think it's intentional.

Just last week, I was listening to an otherwise wonderful record where
the lead trumpet player gaffed the last note of a tune --spYAAAH!!  I
winced, and rewound the CD to hear whether any other players were
startled by this, while my wife hadn't even noticed a mistake, and was
just about to remark that the band sounded very clean.  So, maybe I'd
enjoy the record more if I didn't have the training to spot such tiny
mistakes.

George