Just a bit random but it's been amusing me - I can usually pitch an A, I think because I've been tuning to it for such a long time.

I just recently realised that on off days when I don't hit the A, I don't generally get a B or a G or something... I get a D or an E

I guess this comes of having those notes in my head from such an early age as a 7 year old would be violinist. Still, it amused me

Anyone else have any notes that they automagically gravitate to?

After just two or three singing lessons with katyjay I could (and can still) reliably pitch a descending C major arpeggio. I've never been able to do anything like that before, although I could get a G or thereabouts by singing 'God save the Queen'.

You've got me practicing arpeggios of C to my (redundant) oboe tuner. I'm not good.

I got an F for God save the queen - but that's OK if I can do it every time. I'll let you know.

Andante - d'you think that's aural memory or muscle memory? Or do you not waste time thinking about these things like I do?

I think this tuning to A business is catching. I just sung an A perfectly...I don't think I'd be good with anything else though

C is the one I gravitate to...

Presumably you know it's a C straight away though??

Not sure. I can't pitch an A, which I've heard loads of times, but I can do the C major arpeggio in my head before I sing it.

No 3 son has taken to playing random notes on the piano and asking me what they are - I can often get them now if I relate them to the C in my head.

I sometimes think I can pitch something, but then I find I can't.

On the violin, I pitch in G or A, but when I try to sight-sing(which is VERY rare ), I pitch in C.

Hmm, that's crazy isn't it?? Wonder why. I could understand if it was just muscle memory, that you could suddenly do it, but if you can hear it before you sing it, then it can't *just* be muscle memory... interesting that singing it could have that much of an effect.

Yup, but it's still the one I gravitate towards!

I didn't always have perfect pitch in my memory - I'm pretty sure I didn't when I was young. But I did know what a C was, and gradually the picture kind of built up in my mind. I don't have so much a reflex response - "That's an F#!!" to many notes, but what I have is a map of notes and relations in my mind that slides over the notes until it fits, and when it fits, every note has its own colour and texture and sound. So it was the C that started it all.

Oh right! I would say "I see", but I don't really - cos I don't have it - but it does make sense insofar as it can to someone without the facility!

I can pitch an A pretty accurately (usually within about a quarter of tone). For me there's a kind of resonant quality to A - if I sing it it has a very particular vocal quality, that I can kind of feel in my body and know how to 'get' it. I can also generally pitch an E (upper string on the guitar).

(Forgot to say, I definitely don't have 'perfect pitch' - but I reckon I have a reasonable sense of relative pitch, and I sing intervals by feeling, not by a formal system of any kind).

The only way I can do it is to find the lowest note of my range which I know comfortably to be E below middle C and work from there!

Apparently I can also pitch middle C. Who knew?

I tend to pitch any piece I know correctly; if I put on a CD or record, I can usually sing the first phrase at pitch - though as I listen to a lot of baroque music recordings, usually but not always pitched about a semitone flat of modern concert pitch, I'm never sure of actual starting notes. When I was younger, I found that any F played on the piano jumped out at me - I knew it was an F, but not what any other note was, nor could I recognise it on any other instrument....this facility is disappearing now, maybe also thanks to listening to lots of funny pitches .

This is totally irrelevant, but I was on topic before...tonight we were watching something on telly, and at the end the programme's theme tune started up just as my clock began to chime. Both were in time with each other, and in key! At least until the rallentando in the theme began .

Excellent.