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Letter: My own personal earworm triggers

Published 14 October 2015

From Paul Dormer

Ed Hannah reports looking for things that can trigger earworms (Letters, 12 September). This reminds me of having The Ballad of Robin Hood in my head on moving to a new office. I’d not heard it for about 20 years. My office was close to a stairwell. Whenever someone used it, the closing door beat out the rhythm of the song’s opening fanfare.

Recently I have noticed at London’s Waterloo station that the sounds played to tell us the train doors are unlocked make me hum the opening of Prokofiev’s first piano concerto.
Guildford, Surrey, UK

Issue no. 3043 published 17 October 2015

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