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coul, Babies and tuning

🔗ribarbe@garlic.com (Atlas Eclipticalis)

9/6/1996 2:11:18 PM
Thats interesting. I have a feeling Im not the first to wonder what the
heck they were playing the kids. It reminds me of my high school band
teacher who used to grab his teeth fillings when someone hit a real sour
one. Baby...
cheers, rick

>A story in the newspaper yesterday tells that babies do not like out
>of tune synthesizer music. Psychologists of the Harvard University
>have discovered that babies of four months and older know when music
>does not sound good. 16 Boys and 16 girls were tested and they avert
>their ears or start to cry with false notes. They didn't do that when
>the music was not out of tune. The results were published in Nature
>magazine.

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