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I kind of have that. For me, pitches of music have a certain color to them. It's really hard to describe. For me, E is red, F is like grey blue, A is orange, B flat is navy blue, etc etc.

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That's so cool. Can you tell when a piano is out of tune by the colors of the notes?

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I've always been able to taste things. images, ideas, people, words. it's not synesthesia, it doesn't happen all the time.  

I think most people have little crossovers between the senses like that. but, yeah, it would be amazing to have full-on synesthesia. at least maybe for a little while.

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Yeah, I'm exactly the same way with somethings, but it's only sometimes so it doesn't really count.

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I kind of have that. For me, pitches of music have a certain color to them. It's really hard to describe. For me, E is red, F is like grey blue, A is orange, B flat is navy blue, etc etc.

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That's so cool. Can you tell when a piano is out of tune by the colors of the notes?

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Only a little. I'm not the best at it, like some people I know.

I can definitely tell when one of the strings (each note is created by striking one to three strings, depending on where it lies on the piano) is out of tune with the other. Or when played in a scale.

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I kind of have that. For me, pitches of music have a certain color to them. It's really hard to describe. For me, E is red, F is like grey blue, A is orange, B flat is navy blue, etc etc.

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  If you simply hear a sound, without any visual aid, can you automatically say what note it is, bsed on the colour?

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Lol that's pretty cool. I whish I had that.
It would be quite helpful.
Did you always have it?
Have people adressed you on that matter?

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It's actually a thing that happens (it's not common, but common enough that it has a name) called "perfect pitch". There are variants on perfect pitch, such as perfect relative, or just relative, and they're all skills in which people can hear notes without a reference.

I've pretty much always had it, although it's a skill that I've honed.

My friends are jealous.    

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I kind of have that. For me, pitches of music have a certain color to them. It's really hard to describe. For me, E is red, F is like grey blue, A is orange, B flat is navy blue, etc etc.

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  If you simply hear a sound, without any visual aid, can you automatically say what note it is, bsed on the colour?

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  ja

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 Lol that's pretty cool. I whish I had that.  
 It would be quite helpful.  
 Did you always have it?  
 Have people addressed you on that matter?

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It's actually a thing that happens (it's not common, but common enough that it has a name) called "perfect pitch". There are variants on perfect pitch, such as perfect relative, or just relative, and they're all skills in which people can hear notes without a reference.

I've pretty much always had it, although it's a skill that I've honed.

My friends are jealous.

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So am I. I think perfect pitch is one of the few "superpowers" that actually exist.
It enhances a person's performance in music. It's advantageous. And it puts one above the common person. So it's cool.

Do you think people who don't have it could create their own perfect pitch thing? Like. Listening to notes millions of times, and at the end they can pretty much tell which note is being played, like E or F?
I don't mean with the aid of colours, though that does create a shortcut, but just practicing it from "not having it at all" to "having some type of it".

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Do you think people who don't have it could create their own perfect pitch thing? Like. Listening to notes millions of times, and at the end they can pretty much tell which note is being played, like E or F?
I don't mean with the aid of colours, though that does create a shortcut, but just practicing it from "not having it at all" to "having some type of it".

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Some people do.

I mean, I can recognize pitches, but I had to teach myself what each pitch is first. It took a bit of playing at the piano then walking away and singing the tonic a minute or two later and see if its right.

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I think I have a mild synesthesia, because I've always associated colors with letters, times, days of the week, classes, etc. For example: "French" is red, "English" is a slightly tannish yellow. L is yellow. W is navy blue. Friday is purple. Saturday is gray. Monday is red. "Science" is blue. 5 is purple. Etc. I used to have this thing with people's personalities and colors.

DanaStar, your "personality thing" is synesthesia. Go to mixsig.net to read about it. It's called facetologia when a word has a personality and facetographemia when a grapheme has a personality

*Paradox*

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Colored music notes
Number personalities
Tasting words and ideas
Pictures of music

The most common is color-grapheme synesthesia, having colored letters.

I've spent a lot of time researching it because of my science project. If you are really interested in synesthesia there are a lot of links about it on the internet. Just google it.

Post edited at 6:37 pm on July 9, 2008 by Paradox Revealed

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