this might be an odd question, but i was scrolling through your blog a bit and you mentioned that you had perfect pitch. considering that you play clarinet which is Bb instrument it got me thinking a bit. is your perfect pitch like in the key of Bb if you get what i mean? so if you hear a Bb you recognise it as a C instead of a Bb or is it you hear a C you recognise it as a C? if its the latter is it annoying to play your music as youāre playing something that is a tone lower than its written?
My perfect pitch is in C! Ā I still mostly think about pitches and intervals in terms of violin. Ā But because I discovered I had it around the time I started playing clarinet, and because I play transposing instruments all the time, it doesnāt bother me at all. Ā I just recognize that concert C, Bb clarinet D, A clarinet Eb, Eb clarinet A are all the same note.
(So when I see a C on a Bb clarinet part, I donāt think the pitch C, I think the fingering C which is the pitch Bb.)
The names we give notes are arbitrary. Ā The color green is still green regardless if you call it green or vert or verde or grĆ¼n or vihreƤ. Ā Going from instrument to instrument is like switching languages, all the transpositionsĀ ātranslateā to the same concrete pitch.
I also listen to quite a bit of baroque music so A=415 doesnāt bother me too much either, although it takes some adjustment and I have to think harder about what pitch is being played.
Hope some of that makes sense haha!
