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On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Steve Fosdick  wrote:

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> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:28:47 -0500

> Charles Henry  wrote:

>

>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:26 PM, ailo  wrote:

>> > Another note on the subject:

>> > Some people who have had absolute pitch all their lives may find

>> > that when they get older their sence of pitch gets out of tune. I

>> > know this happened to guys like Alexander Glazunov (Russian

>> > composer) and Sviatoslav Richter (Russian pianist). How fun would

>> > that be?

>>

>> There's some explanation for that effect.  When aging, the basilar

>> membrane stiffens, which shifts the location where resonance occurs.

>>

>> Now, there's also the ongoing debate over place vs. rate theories of

>> pitch, where only the place theory would allow this explanation.

>

> Are we saying here that a given pitch resonates at a different place in

> the cochlea and therefore stimulates the nerves previously associated

> with a different pitch?

Correct.
>

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> Steve.

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