The University of Newscastle at Tyne is running a music perception study. You listen to 30 pairs of short melodies (10 - 12 notes or so) and, for each pair, indicate whether the two are the same or different. As Metafilter says, "[H]arder than it sounds, no pun intended." (I managed to get 25/30 correct.) I'm thinking you'd do well on this if you had perfect pitch, or even could just play piano well enough to have a better sense of where notes were falling on the keyboard playing the tones.
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Posted by johndanseven at February 7, 2006 04:42 PM