# What are notes in music?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 19, 2012, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-notes-in-music/628682 "2012-07-19T04:11:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-notes-in-music/628682/41 "2012-07-26T14:07:23Z")

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> [@Jragon](#):
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> I wonder how nuts that drives people with perfect pitch. Especially if they learned perfect pitch with a piano tuned to something non-standard like A=443.

Perfect pitch doesn’t necessarily imply the ability to discern frequencies to that level of accuracy. I think if you can get within a semitone (which would typically be more like 30Hz), it counts.

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