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Neuropsychology: Brains out of tune

Thomas F. Münte

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Is lack of musical ability simply the result of failure to practise? Probably not, if new investigations are anything to go by. They show that a disorder akin to dyslexia affects the processing of pitch.

There was an old fellow of Sheen
whose musical sense was not keen.
He said: "It is odd,
I can never tell 'God
save the weasel' from 'Pop goes the Queen'!"