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Letter: Tune deaf

Published 13 October 2001

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

Issue no. 2312 published 13 October 2001

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