Tell me one interesting fact about your job that most people outside wouldn't know

I'll start first: most of the cakes you get from bakeries come in frozen and prepared. Even in really nice bakeries we get frozen bases to ensure consistency. The designs are always fresh and we put a lot of work in but most people expect a freshly baked sponge every time

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alan20 · M

Very few people have absolute pitch. The scientific explanation just isn't known. A lecturer at college once asked if anyone present actually had it. Nobody put their hand up including me, because occasionally it seems to temporarily go, especially if one is nervous about making a fool of oneself. But 95% of the time if I hear a certain pitch I can name the key on the piano that will reproduce it. It has to be some kind of freak of memory, possibly connected with my father being a piano tuner although he didn't have it. Its really only of curiosity value. Recently watching something on tv I heard a sound that maintained a certain pitch even though it wasn't a musical instrument. I said "that's Bflat, a 7th. above middle C". My wife checked it on the piano and it was, even though I haven't played the piano for ages.