We would like to invite you to participate in a project on pitch-naming ability among musicians. The
project
aims
to investigate the range of pitch-naming ability among musicians, from those who perform at chance level
(guess
the identity of presented notes) through to those with high-accuracy absolute pitch (perfect pitch). We
are
also
interested in the heritability of pitch-naming ability – if one of your parents has absolute pitch, for
example,
how
does this relate to your pitch-naming ability? Importantly, traditional methods of classifying pitch
naming
ability
have not been shown to be reliable. For this reason, we are also investigating the range of abilities in
the
population/community. This means there is no right or wrong outcome from performing this task, and it will
not
be able to tell you whether you have perfect pitch. Your participation will help us to better understand
how
pitch-
naming varies in the population, and how both genetic and environmental factors may contribute to it.