Relative pitch, more on

 

I thought this was too good to leave buried in the forum:

 EMoon wrote: 

 . . .  Relative pitch–I'm still struggling with it, but about a week ago actually *heard* a fifth as a fifth, listening to music on the radio.  

My musical moment of terror came last week, when our choir director, giving another alto and me a lesson (he gives a free lesson once a year to choir members who want it; this is the first time I've had the nerve), calmly announced that I was not a second alto (a self-definition tha