CellBioGuy comments on Discovering Your Secretly Secret Sensory Experiences - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CellBioGuy 19 March 2014 02:39:29AM *  3 points [-]

I think that I lack a precise sense of relative pitch over time - as in I can only easily compare tones that are simultaneous or directly one after the other. Give me three tones where pitch first, say, raises and then lowers again, unless they are either identical or a good octave apart I have a hard time telling if the first or third is higher in pitch.

Comment author: VAuroch 19 March 2014 03:33:02AM 1 point [-]

There is a word for the opposite of that (perfect relative pitch), so you're probably in the majority here.

Comment author: CellBioGuy 19 March 2014 04:14:56PM *  1 point [-]

Not so sure about that... here, example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvEwOfL21Uo

I can't tell if the first or third chime is higher pitched. I can tell it goes up and down but even separated by two seconds I can't leap over the middle one. At least compared to several of my friends from college onwards, this seems unusual.

Comment author: komponisto 22 March 2014 05:37:09PM 1 point [-]

If you can, try testing your ability to determine whether the chimes are being played in the normal order or backwards.