From Crispin Piney
I was comforted to read the article on congenital amusia
(22 September, p 21).
Isabelle Peretz of Montreal University may have identified it only 4 years
ago, but it has been known about outside the university environment for far
longer than that. For proof, here’s a limerick that I have known—and used
to illustrate my own lack of musical sensitivity—for many years now.
There once was a man called Green/Whose musical sense was not keen/He said:
“It is odd/I cannot tell God/Save the Weasel from Pop Goes the Queen”.
Valbonne, France
