Dear Ed;
All this talk about the effect of music on plants. What I'm really
interested in is the effect of plants on music. When the original American
drug tsar Harry Anslinger died, his personal physician, one Dr. Munch (you
can't make this stuff up), was asked in an interview why Mr. Anslinger hated
jazz musicians so much. Dr Munch replied that Mr. Anslinger felt that jazz
musicians were given to imbibing cannabis and cannabis slowed down the
musicians sense of time allowing them to insert all these extra notes in
between the written notes, and he, Mr Anslinger, felt that they should stick
to the written notes. How's that for an urban myth?
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "gary digman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "lutelist" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 4:56 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Music Therapy
> The effects of music on plants. Hmmmm. this is another fascinating
myth.
>
> I saw a TV show this past autumn, called the "Mythbusters". Thus us a
> funny show, where a hypothesis in the form of a myth is either confirmed
or
> busted. In this episode, they set up identical greenhouses, in which one
> had voices arguing loudly telling the plants they 'sucked', one had
Mozart,
> one had pleasant voices telling the plants they were beautiful, and one
> with loud, trashy, bashing and booming heavy metal rock.
>
> Of the 4 greenhouses, 3 had little deviation. The one with the most
> obvious positive growth was the loud rock greenhouse.
>
> ed
>
>
>
> At 01:31 AM 1/6/2006 -0800, gary digman wrote:
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Donatella Galletti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "lute" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
> >Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 1:10 AM
> >Subject: [LUTE] Re: Music Therapy
> >
> >
> > > and I also suspect my listening to classical music and playing
> > > has an influence on the plants nearby, because they usually bloom even
> >when
> > > they are not supposed to.
> > >
> > > Donatella
> >
> >
> >Such validation, to know that even the plants respond to one's music. Of
> >course, the only way to be sure is to have the same plants in an
environment
> >identical in every way except for the absence of music, and see how they
> >fare.
> >
> >All the Best, Donatella,
> >Gary
> >
> >
> >
> >
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