source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 14:11:18 -0700 Subject: Re: coul, Babies and tuning From: ribarbe@garlic.com (Atlas Eclipticalis) 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. --- E am not especially clever, just basically very average, E merely try to maximise thee effectiveness of whatever gifts or abilities E have by focusing them towards what E want to happen. Genesis P-Orridge finger for PGP pub key 9 Jul 81 TGHQGB pLUNDERaNDaSSIMILATEtHEhISTORYoFmUSIC http://garlic.com/~ribarbe/vth Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sat, 7 Sep 1996 01:29 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA25828; Sat, 7 Sep 1996 01:30:52 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA26011 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA06111; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 16:30:50 -0700 Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 16:30:50 -0700 Message-Id: <3230BA98.35B2@sprynet.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu