Well, I don't care much whether it has been demonstrated or not, it works for me and it's ok, and even if it did not work on my flowers, I would listen to music and play anyway.
About the experiment below, did they care to check whether the people who looked after the plants liked best rock or classical music, and if this could have affected the plants growth? I mean , if these people were in a different mood when watering the plants, this is an element which should have been taken into consideration. I also read about Findorn, in Scotland, were people seem to have grown huge plants using as fertilizer loving words. I repeat it as I read it. I can tell an amusing experience I had with classical music and students: years ago I was teaching students who did not listen to anything different from hard rock, punk and the like, they were not very bright, neither were they able to concentrate, and above all they were very aggressive. I did something very daring: while they had to do a task, I had them listen to classical music ( Mozart). I expected some of them would have killed me after a few minutes or yelled to switch the tape recorder off, but unexpectedly for me, they became very calm and concentrated, and one of them who was the more addicted to rock and was not able to keep calm and sit down for more than 30'', prayed me to let the tape recorder play because he liked it. One of the students asked for permission to listen to rock music with his walkman, and after a few minutes I told him to stop. He asked why and the whole class laughed, telling him :" Can't you see why? You can't concentrate and are moving on the chair every few seconds" ( well, they did not use exactly these kind words..) . He looked around, realized everybody was strangely calm, and was very confused, he was not even able to answer and shut off the walkman. A real lesson for me, more than reading two hundred essays about the effect of music on people Donatella PS Happy New Year to everybody! http://web.tiscali.it/awebd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Taco Walstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Edward Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Donatella Galletti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "lutelist" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 2:07 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Music Therapy > On Friday 06 January 2006 13:56, you wrote: >> 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. >> > > Ergo Donatella should play from now on heavy metal on her lute and not > this > lousy baroque stuff and her plants will produce even more blooming > flowers. > Taco > > > >> 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 >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >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 > > >
