There are many different types of synesthesia, and it is only recently that it has been taken seriously as psychological phenomena. I hope this is helpful if I can clarify anything, please let me know. A lesser problem is tunings on a guitar I have to learn each tuning as a completely different instrument and takes me noticeably longer than someone without absolute pitch. It is virtually impossible for me to play a keyboard with the "transpose" setting on playing middle C and hearing a B come out is jarring to the point of being completely disabling. The biggest drawback I can think of to synesthesia/absolute pitch is the difficulty of transposing. It is not clear to me how having synesthesia would make absolute pitch easier to attain. When my guitar is flat, the color is still there but loses its vividness in my mind. The color is more vivid this way, even though it's technically "incorrect". Also interesting is the fact that when I tune the A string, I know the color of the "proper" A440, but my ear prefers a sharper A442. When tuning my guitar, for example, I know there's a certain richness I associate with the golden color of G that just isn't there until I've gotten the G string just right. ![]() Synesthesia is also helpful when tuning instruments. However, this leads to a chicken/egg question: do I like these keys more because the colors are stronger, or are the colors stronger because I like the keys more? I have no idea. For example, I have never written anything in the key of B-flat because I simply don't like it and the color is not as intense or beautiful as, say, C#, F#, C, or G, which I tend to favor. My synesthesia leads me to favor certain keys when I compose.
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