OT? How our brains react to music.

[pianolac]

Ron & LIst,

Not weird, many people of my acquaintance feel that music is a distraction
when doing something else, especially when doing something that requires
intense concentration.

But will someone explain this:  I like listening to music while tuning,
especially piano concertos, especially Mozart concertos.  I feel less
stressed out at the end of the tuning, and the tuning comes out the same
whether listening to music or not.

Arthur Grudko
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net>
To: "Sarah Fox" <sarah@gendernet.org>; "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: OT? How our brains react to music.


>
> >In fact it's
> >hard for me to keep a clear head without some music playing somewhere.
;-)
> >
> >Peace,
> >Sarah
>
>
> Sarah,
> This is something that's always intrigued me, since I'm just the opposite.
> I prefer silence most times, and especially when I'm working. I find
> background music of any sort to be intrusive noise when I'm trying to
> concentrate on something, or even working in the shop. No radio or CD when
> I'm driving either, because that's thinking time. When I put on some music
> and go limbic, I want to relax and give it my undivided attention to get
> the full endorphin dose.
>
> Probably just weird.
>
> Ron N
>
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