Dear Susan, Fiona and list, --- Susan Schneider <smschneider@e...> wrote: > HI, Fiona and List, > My > 8-year-old son, who until > last year I thought couldn't carry a tune in a > bucket, has been taking > violin lessons for 1 year now, and can now sing the > pitches of his open > strings without hearing them first I was at an lesson for children by Barbara Bonney, and she made them associate an A with something (that's the way our memory works, things in our memory don't disappear, you just need the clue, the connection, Proust's 'madeleine', like a FAT on a hard disk). Her idea was that you can train a perfect pitch within certain limits.
Best greetings, Dre
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