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TracingWoodgrains  10mo ago (furiouslyrotatingshapes.substack.com)   1751 thread views

How One Woman’s Children (n=2) Acquired Absolute Pitch

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Many of you are familiar with some of my writing on early childhood education. Here, someone I’ve chatted with explains at some length her process for helping her children acquire absolute pitch. This is something possible for almost everyone during a narrow window of time; it and similar time-sensitive skills are worth serious consideration if you are a parent of a young child.

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Speaking of fundamental things I'm missing out on... I can't figure out how to click this link? It looks like it's pointing toward "furiouslyrotatingshapes.substack.com," and when I click on that, it takes me to a Motte page search. When I paste it into my browser, it takes me to a substack that appears empty. This is not the first time this has happened to me. What am I missing?

The author deleted the page, unfortunately.

That's unfortunate. I don't suppose you have any idea why? It looks like the whole substack has been wiped, but I guess I don't know for sure that there was anything else on it to begin with.

It’s mostly my fault, alas—she’s a private person who was understandably a bit overwhelmed by the flood of attention the post drew. I’m hoping she’ll be comfortable republishing the info in yet more anonymized fashion somewhere later, since it was a fantastic and useful post, but for now it’s down.

Ah, alright.

My 18 month old seems like she might benefit from pitch training -- she really likes musical tones, from when she was one day old and they were playing noises in her ear for the hearing test -- but I am very unmusical, and probably wouldn't stick with it anyway.

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