A wonderful story. ed
At 02:21 AM 1/7/2006 -0800, gary digman wrote: >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" <[email protected]> >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" <[email protected]> > > >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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at > > >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > > > > > Edward Martin > > 2817 East 2nd Street > > Duluth, Minnesota 55812 > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > voice: (218) 728-1202 > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.12/220 - Release Date: 1/3/2006 > > > > Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (218) 728-1202
