“Perfect pitch again!” I cried.
“Oh, yes,” she replied listlessly, “I can always do that.”
“Now take the closest interval you can, below the c.”
She did so. Then the next--and the next. I would not permit an
_apportamento_, but made her separate the notes. She sang three distinct
notes between the _c_ and the _b_-natural that, on the piano, is the
next step down.