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Scan 116
A Practical Guide to Violin-Playing, 1913
4 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 98. See the scan on archive.org.
1Perfect pitch. By "perfect pitch" we understand the hearing of a sound and the power to describe it correctly.
3This gift is one of the most valuable assets to a good musician, and is sometimes found in young children who have had scarcely any musical training. However, the writer would once again repeat that every shortcoming can be improved by sheer hard work and intelligent practising; even the gauging of a given note can be tolerably well learned. To those who possess the gift of perfect pitch every note and chord has a distinct character. Violinists will of course feel more at home in gauging the notes on the violin than upon the pianoforte or other instruments.
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