Re: The Tiebreaker: How many times will the judges use the word “pitch
They use it to mean not singing the correct pitch (pitch = specific frequency of a sound wave... for a particular note (i.e. F above middle C), there is a corresponding f). The difference between two adjacent notes (i.e. F and F#) is measurable, and if you miss a note, you can fall in between those notes ("in the cracks" (of the piano)), either higher than the intended note (greater frequency -> "sharp") or lower (lower frequency -> "flat"). A poor singer will miss these slight differences in frequency. Someone had a really cool thread with a link to a test for tone-deafness a few weeks back that will let you see firsthand how close these pitches can be, yet still be noticeable to those with good ears.
That was my dump post tying 7th grade choir and 11th grade physics together (with an absurd overabundance of improperly-used parentheses).
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