Scientists tune in to tone deafness (CNN) {amusia/online test}

[eppur_se_muova]

Tuesday, April 18, 2006; Posted: 11:29 a.m. EDT (15:29 GMT)

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Most people know somebody who claims to be "tone deaf." Now scientists in the UK are using the Internet to conduct the largest ever investigation into the musical listening disorder.

More than 70,000 people have already taken part in the online study which aims to discover just how many people suffer from the condition, properly known as "amusia" by neurologists.
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Amusia is characterized by an inability to recognize familiar tunes or tell two pieces of music apart. Among those suspected to have suffered from the condition are the revolutionary Che Guevara and the American president Theodore Roosevelt.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/04/18/tonedeafness.study/index.html

You can go directly to the online test at: http://www.delosis.com/listening/home.html

[valerief]

1. All songs written after 1988 sound alike anyway. n/t

[LifeDuringWartime]

2. i completely disagree

people always say there isn't good music being made anymore. there has ALWAYS been good music to be listened to. Some of it just isn't up in your face.

[valerief]

3. All the good vocal music people give me to hear sounds like

sheeps baaing. Or a child whining nasally. I'm too old I guess.

[MisterP]

5. that made me think of the Beach Boys

speaking of sounding alike...

[valerief]

6. I'm in a Blossom Dearie phase now.

I'm a sucker for standards, but I like to work Thelonius Monk or bossa nova music.

I hate the baaing and the whining and the inability of a singer to hold a note in one key for more than a nanosecond.

[troubleinwinter]

8. They play that screaming, nasal shit in the grocery store.

[valerief]

11. And I hate electric guitars. Why can't bands play cellos and

clarinets only? I know why. Cuz then it would sound like music!!!! Oh, I'm getting punchy, kiddies.

[troubleinwinter]

16. It's the ghastly "singing" (loud yelling) by women that I can't bear.

[allalone]

18. me too

sometimes I wish the singer would just lay egg that already!

[rwenos]

7. Heard One Haydn Symphony . . .

. . . you've heard them all.

And doesn't that Schuman symphony sound like Beethoven? (Hint: Beethoven sold Schuman the main theme in the 1st movement.)

(!)

[Whoa_Nelly]

4. Cool! Took the test

Interesting :)

[Mojorabbit]

9. 25 out of 30

was my score but I still can't carry a tune.

[laundry_queen]

14. 28 out of 30 and I can't carry a tune.

But I sure can tell when someone else can't. :rofl:

[troubleinwinter]

10. All the test did

was prove my intolerance and impatience for listening to crap.

[valerief]

12. Thanks. I thought it might be crap and that's why I didn't take it.

Thanks for confirming it.

[magellan]

13. 26 out of 30 and hubby got 28

And yet neither of us can carry a tune. Nifty test, thanks!

[darkism]

15. 28/30 - thanks for the test.

It's interesting how I knew some of them were different even if I didn't explicitly remember why.

[BlueJazz]

17. I got 29 but it's just part lucky genes.

I was blessed with perfect Pitch.

ON Edit..Some of the "Tunes" are pretty Shitty :) :)

[BrklynLiberal]

19. coool. I always thought I was tone deaf, so getting 19/30 was much

better than I thought I would do.