You still have to show where longtime remembering of absolute pitches would improve a single thing, regarding music making. You just assume it.
That's my point. It adds almost nothing, on its own. It does not mean anything musically in itself. Would you have hired Joybubble (the whistler) for music transcription? Look the poor guy up. But APR also often comes as a by-product of musical training, so it can serve as a marker of musical skills, most of the time. Its like seeing callosities as a sign of hard work. Or the bartender who can discern beer brands by the plopping of the lids. It comes with experience, but it is superfluous, you can just read the labels...Is it not a fact that acquiring long-term absolute pitch hearing ability adds positively to overall capabilities of a skilled music maker?
I would obviously take the one without APR because long-term remembering of absolute pitches is of no import here and as there are so many admirers of 'perfect pitch' out there, the perfect pitcher would want more money.You've got two applicants for a job, with fully equal abilities in all areas, except that one of them has demonstrated long-term absolute pitch recognition ability and the other has not. Which one would you hire?
Your constructed case says everything about the insignificance of APR. It is like saying:
Two candidates are completely equal, but one can tell the number of keys of all brass instruments...
You are right with both things. Trancecrafter seemed to suggest he somehow needs APR for music making, I wanted to know why. Not questioning the quest here! His researching of the phenomenology of timbres is one of the more interesting things on this forum.who are any of us to question that quest for absolute pitch. Personally I find efforts to develop one's wetware admirable, especially compared to my own path of cyborgification.
I admire wetware abilities too, who doesn't? I watch all those Jacob Collier videos with awe. Otoh, there are still many brilliant musicians not even knowing basic music theory... It is often not perfection that I am interested in.
How is your APR, by the way? Personally, I only remember pitch through the night. My margin of error is a half to whole step, when returning to a track the next morning. But I never practiced...