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Iain Aitch always knew he couldn't carry a tune. But is = he=20 genuinely tone-deaf, or just off key? An online test brings = surprising=20 news ...

Wednesday July 25, 2007
The Guardian =

Revelations rarely come when you're = sitting in=20 a traffic jam, but I clearly remember this as the moment when I = first=20 considered that I might be tone-deaf. It was one of those warm = April days=20 that prefaced the non-arrival of summer, the car windows were = wound down=20 and I was attempting a rendition of Abba's Fernando.

Perhaps it was the look from the woman in the next car, or = maybe it was=20 the realisation that I was trying to sing a female lead, but I = found my=20 voice dropping. I stared at my feet, avoiding the gaze of the = woman who=20 had just suffered my pitiful caterwauling. I recalled being told = to just=20 mouth the words in primary school musicals, and my complete = inability to=20 interpret even the most basic three-chord dirge during those = inevitable=20 teenage guitar experiments. You often hear the term "tone-deaf" = thrown=20 around as a joke, but I started to wonder if I might really have = the=20 condition.

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Professor Tim Griffiths - the = leading=20 UK expert on amusia, the medical loss of musical ability - = suggested I=20 take his online test so that he could assess just how tone-deaf I = am.=20 Griffiths, who is in charge of clinical neurology at Newcastle = University=20 Medical School, will be talking about his work tonight at the = Science=20 Museum's Dana Centre.

He explains to me how many amusics take no pleasure from music, = some=20 even finding it painful or uncomfortable. I know this is not the = case for=20 me, as I have a large vinyl, CD and MP3 collection - though some = friends=20 do have doubts about my taste for scratchy, atonal, obscure = European punk=20 bands.

The test is a series of short tunes, played in pairs; the = listener must=20 say whether the second tune in each pair is the same as the first, = or=20 slightly different. The first few pairs seem easy enough, but = halfway in,=20 I start to find things difficult. After a second test of 30 short = tunes, I=20 guess my mark for both series to be around 18, so I am shocked = when my=20 results come back as 28 and 25.

Confused about my high scores, I arrange to meet up with Dr = Lauren=20 Stewart at the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. Stewart, a = lecturer in psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, is = researching=20 amusia with Professor Griffiths and is responsible for picking out = possible amusics from the online test, whom she then subjects to = further=20 testing.

With one sentence, she dismisses my results. "I am afraid you = don't=20 interest me," she says. "You would have to have scored less than = 22 out of=20 30 to be in the amusic range.

"A lot of people say they are tone-deaf," she adds. = "Apparently, 15% of=20 graduates think they are tone-deaf. Sometimes they actually can't = sing in=20 tune, but the critical thing is that most can hear that they are = out of=20 tune, which means they have a production problem. They don't have = a=20 problem with their perception."

Stewart tells me about a woman she is working with who = genuinely does=20 have amusia: Anne Barker. For Barker, music is largely a mish-mash = of=20 unintelligible noises. Like many amusics, she did not know she = even had=20 the condition until recently. She always knew she couldn't get a = handle on=20 tunes or rhythms: "I really struggled, even if I practised really = hard,"=20 she says. "I used to turn up for the church choir and they always = seemed=20 to have just filled their last place. I used to say to my mother, = 'I must=20 get there earlier next year.'"

Barker comes from a large, very musical family in County = Tyrone. Her=20 father ran a music shop and all her siblings played instruments, = but she=20 has known there was something not quite right since she was around = 12.

"My one big handicap through this is dancing," she says. "I = just can't=20 keep in time to the music. I have to count and tell my feet to = move, so=20 it's impossible to really dance." Che Guevara also had this = problem; the=20 tone-deaf revolutionary was unable to tell a foxtrot from a tango.

As Barker has some fellow amusics in her family, Dr Stewart is=20 exploring as much of her bloodline as possible to discover whether = there=20 may be a genetic reason for tone-deafness. The only study of = prevalence=20 suggests that up to 4% of the population may be amusic to some = degree,=20 though Stewart believes the figure is probably closer to 2%. Thus = far it=20 has been established that it is a problem in the brain, but a lot = more=20 work needs to be done before amusia is fully understood.

With a clean bill of health as far as amusia is concerned, I = decide I=20 need to continue my research, so I visit singing teacher Jean = Hornbuckle,=20 who will hold workshops at the Dana Centre's tone-deafness event. = She=20 believes that much of what we perceive as tone-deafness is simply = down to=20 a lack of musical education or opportunity.

I sit asking Hornbuckle questions for longer than is necessary, = in what=20 is clearly an act of procrastination. But before long she has me = on my=20 feet performing breathing exercises, as she explains how the lungs = and=20 stomach do a good deal of the work when you sing. Within 30 = minutes, I am=20 singing Oh What a Beautiful Morning. My voice sounds good - or at = least=20 seems to be in tune. I begin to form the right mouth shapes. I am = not=20 tone-deaf after all. In fact, Hornbuckle informs me, I am a = baritone.

On that high note, I take my leave. London choirs, get your = offers in=20 now, before Andrew Lloyd Webber hears about me.=20

=B7 To take the tone-deafness test, visit delosis.com/listening. = Tone=20 Deaf Tune-In is at the Dana Centre, London, tonight from = 7-9pm. Free=20 admission. Book on 020-7942 4040.

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";domain=3D"+d:"")+(e>0 ? = ";expires=3D"+_CDTE.toGMTString():""); } return n; } function _gc(n) { = var co =3D _UDC.cookie; var pos =3D co.indexOf(n+"=3D"); return pos !=3D = -1 ? co.substring(pos+n.length+1,(co.indexOf("; ",pos)!=3D -1 ? = co.indexOf("; ",pos):co.length)):null; } function _encd(s,chrs,b){ = for(var i=3D0,ns=3D"",c=3D"";i=3D0 : chrs.indexOf(s.charAt(i))<0)){ = ns+=3Ds.charAt(i); }else{ if((c=3D_CHR.indexOf(s.charAt(i)))>0) = ns+=3D"%"+_pad(_toHex(c),2); } } return ns; } function _crc32(buf) { = i=3D0; cnt =3D buf.length; crc =3D 0xFFFFFFFF; while (cnt-- !=3D 0) crc = =3D _CRCTbl[(crc ^ _CHR.indexOf(buf.charAt(i++))) & 0xFF] ^ (crc >>> 8); = crc ^=3D 0xFFFFFFFF; crc =3D (crc & 0x7FFFFFFF) + = ((crc<0)?0x80000000:0); return crc; } function _appendToUrl(u,n,v) { = return u+((u.indexOf("?")=3D=3D-1)?"?":"&")+n+"=3D"+v; } function = _toHex(n){ var rmd=3D0,quo=3D0,hex=3D""; if(n < 16) { return _hexc[n]; = }else{ rmd =3D (n%16); quo =3D Math.floor((n - rmd)/16); return = (_toHex(quo)+_toHex(rmd)); } } function _pad(d,p){ d +=3D ""; = while(d.length < p){ d =3D "0"+d; } return d; } function _checkBoom(){ = var segC=3D"", bomc=3D"",scrc=3D0,bcrc=3D0; if((segC =3D _gc("DMSEG")) = !=3D null){ if((bomc =3D _gc("DMBOM")) !=3D null){ scrc =3D = _pad(_toHex(_crc32(segC)),8); bcrc =3D bomc.substr(0,bomc.indexOf("&")); = if(scrc !=3D bcrc){ = _sendBoom(segC,scrc,DM_BOOM_DMN,DM_BOOM_SRC,DM_BOOM_DCN); } }else{ = _sendBoom(segC,_pad(_toHex(_crc32(segC)),8),DM_BOOM_DMN,DM_BOOM_SRC,DM_BO= OM_DCN); } } } function _sendBoom(segC,crc,dmn,src,dcn){ var = aTok,segs,rid=3D0,i=3D0,bl=3D"",u=3D""; segC =3D unescape(segC); aTok = =3D segC.split("&"); if(aTok.length >=3D 6){ if(aTok[5].length > 0){ = segs =3D aTok[5].split(","); while(i < segs.length){ bl +=3D = "boom=3D"+segs[i]+";"; i++; } rid =3D = Math.floor(Math.random()*Math.pow(10,9)); u =3D = "/src=3D"+src+";dcnet=3D"+dcn+";"+bl+"sz=3D1x1;ord=3D"+rid+"?"; = _ship(rid,location.protocol+"//",dmn,dmn,u,0); _setBoom(crc,1); }else{ = _setBoom(crc,0); } }else{ _setBoom(crc,0); } } function = _setBoom(crc,snt){ = _sc("DMBOM",crc+"&"+_toHex(Math.floor(_DTE))+"&"+snt,DM_CHN,"/",0,1); } = function _rstReq() { _CNV =3D ""; _LOC =3D _UDC.location.toString(); = _REF =3D _UDC.referrer.toString(); _UID =3D 0; } function = DM_event(e,n,v){ for(var i=3D0;i<_evts.length;i++){ if(_evts[i].name = =3D=3D e){ if(_evts[i].props.indexOf("("+_encd(n,_BCL1,0)+".")<0){ = _evts[i].props+=3D"("+_encd(n,_BCL1,0)+"."+_encd(v,_BCL1,0)+")"; return = 1; }else{ return 0; } } } = _evts[_evts.length]=3D{name:_encd(e,_BCL1,0),props:"("+_encd(n,_BCL1,0)+"= ."+_encd(v,_BCL1,0)+")"}; return 1; } function DM_cat(cat) { = _addNV("DM_CAT",_encd(cat,_BCL1,0)) } function DM_name(f) { = _addNV("DM_NAM",_encd(f,_BCL1,0)) } function DM_keywords(k) { = _addNV("DM_KYW",_encd(k,_BCL1,0)) } function DM_segments(s) { = _addNV("DM_SEG",_encd(s,_BCL1,0)) } function DM_addToLoc(n,v) { var ev = =3D escape(unescape(v)); _LOC=3D_appendToUrl(_LOC,n,ev); = if(DM_DREF=3D=3D1) { _REF=3D_appendToUrl(_REF,n,ev); } }//-->=0A= ------=_NextPart_000_0000_01C7D461.287CC410 Content-Type: application/octet-stream Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Location: http://js.revsci.net/gateway/gw.js?csid=E05516 /*=0A= * Build version UW-11.0.0-91=0A= */=0A= var rsi_k;=0A= var rsi_now =3D new Date();=0A= var rsi_csid =3D 'E05516';=0A= rsi_k =3D '&kd=3D' + rsi_now.getFullYear() + '_' + = (rsi_now.getMonth()+1) + '_' + rsi_now.getDate();=0A= document.writeln('