I've been a guitarist for 35 years who took an ear training course w/ vocal lessons about 10 years in.
I could probably do better than blind determining what is 432 vs. 440 because there are enough common reference examples out there that I have sense of feel for the difference, and I could tune an A4 cold +- 5 cents. But a third of that? A vanishingly small number of musicians would be able to do that with any reliability without a reference point.
She didn't know how on-point a pitch was because she was listening. It was innate and immediate. It was literally described as the intensity of a color that corresponded to a key.
We're kinda off in the weeds from the point I was making, which was refuting the notion that music could have any analog to reciting a phone book. There is a bit of a connection between memory and processing music in a way, at least for those with this condition, that probably is more subconscious for those without.
I could probably do better than blind determining what is 432 vs. 440 because there are enough common reference examples out there that I have sense of feel for the difference, and I could tune an A4 cold +- 5 cents. But a third of that? A vanishingly small number of musicians would be able to do that with any reliability without a reference point.
She didn't know how on-point a pitch was because she was listening. It was innate and immediate. It was literally described as the intensity of a color that corresponded to a key.
We're kinda off in the weeds from the point I was making, which was refuting the notion that music could have any analog to reciting a phone book. There is a bit of a connection between memory and processing music in a way, at least for those with this condition, that probably is more subconscious for those without.