Facts about Dormice:

Dormice are clever - they bite, they growl, bark, scream and whistle, and almost never squeak, they sleep for seven months of the year, they like eating their bodyweight in a single day, they're cute, sort of like fluffy barbed wire. They also revenge-crap in your hiking boots.

Therefore, I am a Dormouse. Apart from perhaps the revenge-crapping. But don't push me too far, as you never know...

My passion is ...

Opera

I know too much about ...

...self doubt.

My parents always told me ...

do your best.

My childhood ambition ...

to read every book in the school library.

My favorite memory ...

there are so many

Why I write ...

because I have to.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading: Alan Bennett's autobiography/Watching: Eastenders Omnibus/Listening to: Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always

My first job ...

Playing the flute on a floating restaurant.

My best moment ...

feeling like I'd joined the human race.

My inspiration ...

the human race.

Entertainment > Music Education Can perfect pitch be taught or is it an innate talent?

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As a professional classical musician, I come across people with "perfect" pitch all the time. I'm supposed to have it myself, but 20 years of professional playing, performing, rehearsing and general banter with colleagues have led me to the following conclusion.

There's no such thing.

I've reached this belief through several instances of differences of pitch opinion over the years.

For example, our modern keyboard is something called "equal tempered". Prior to the introduction of equal temperament, the keyboard scale was divided on acoustic, and not "equal" mathematical prin...

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