G Absolute Pitch Analysis

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Chapter 9, Papa Blows His Nose in G: Absolute Pitch by Oliver Sacks, focuses on absolute pitch that can promptly, tell the pitch of any note, without either reflection or correlation with an outer standard. These individuals can do this with any note they listen, as well as with any note they envision or hear in their heads. The accuracy of absolute pitch fluctuates, yet it is assessed that a great many people with it can personality upwards of seventy tones in the middle region of the auditory range,, and each of these seventy tones has, for them, a one of a kind and trademark quality that distinguishes it completely from some other note. More specifically, Sacks mentions that The Oxford Companion to Music was a boundless wellspring of musical