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COFFEEHOUSE CULTURE -- Issue 2

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Sound can destroy as well as create. It is well known that many soprano and contralto opera singers can shatter a glass if they hit the right note and in Old Testament times it is said that Joshua caused the walls of Jericho to crumble through the use of special trumpets. The American biologist, Dorothy Retallack, made some interesting discoveries by playing plants various types of music. The plants showed no changes when played middle of the road, muzak and Country and Western. Hard rock, on the other hand, caused weakness and extreme loss of growth.
....Playing the plants the uninterrupted sound of a natural F note all day caused them to f-f-f-fade away completely. The plants, however, responded well to Bach, growing rapidly and leaning at an angle of thirty five degrees towards the speakers. Even more dramatic was the effect on plants exposed to classical Indian ragas. As well as growing even more profusely, they angled themselves more than sixty degrees in the direction of the speakers and eventually twined themselves around the speakers and almost embraced them.