People who can name a single musical note played in isolation have what is called absolute, or perfect, pitch. A new study suggests that this uncanny ability might be distorted slightly by a common routine in Western music and could fade with age.
Researchers offered an online test of pitch and tabulated the scores from 2,213 musicians who took it.
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