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Perfect Pitch Is a Product of the Environment, Not Genes

The ability to identify a musical note all in itself, without any other reference point, is one of the most rare traits of a musician. Over the course of history, only a handful of people have demonstrated this ability, including classic music composers Mozart and Tchaikovsky, and famous guitar player Jimi Hendrix. F...

20 May 2009
08:51 GMT

Learning Chinese is Genetic!

The common conception says language is just another cultural trait, like clothing, hair due, music preference or religious beliefs.It was thought that a baby learns the languages he hears in the early years. But a new research points that genes could be in fact involved in learning tonal languages like Chinese.The te...

29 May 2007
03:41 GMT

We Feel the Music The Way Our Speech Is

How you speak is connected to how you feel music, as a team at the Duke University Center for Cognitive Neuroscience has discovered. "The particular notes used in music sound right to our ears because of the way our vocal apparatus makes the sounds used in all human languages," said Dale Purves, the George Barth Gell...

25 May 2007
07:43 GMT

PUF, Smoke and a Lizard

There are so many good-sounding, smooth-playing stock guitars in this big world, fit for anyone, from the complete newbies laying their fingers on a guitar for the very first time and up to the old-beards who grew up with BB King. From the cheapest to the most expensive, all these guitars will usually deliver you sou...

23 March 2007
10:23 GMT


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