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I have always had very good pitch for as far as I can remember, from when I was 7. At that age I asked my mother if I could have piano lessons, which I did. To this day I have great ease in recognizing keys and the notes being played, I can sing back almost any melody instantly and sometimes the accompaniment as well. I usually can hear people singing or playing out of tune even slightly when other people may be marveling at that person's skills. I've never trained my pitch but I've heard a lot of music and studied music to a degree. I think I probably have relative pitch, but very good one at that. Perfect pitch I'm sure can be attained with much studying, drilling and years of experience. But I also think that some people have a natural talent that will help them get there more easily than others. I really like having this ability and it makes me feel very "in tune" with the sounds of the world.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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