Posted by Dr. Science on 03/18/2013 in
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Whenever I hear a bagpipe play, I think my nervous system is going to freak out. I’m planning on visiting Scotland this summer. Is there a scientific device I could wear to protect myself from the sound a bagpipe makes?
———- from Dennis McIntyre of San Francisco, CA
You could wear a walkman and listen to the Who’s Greatest Hits, 24 hours a day. But I don’t know if you’d remember much of the trip when you got home. Another sound I find as irritating as the bag pipe is the pipe organ. Bach wrote some intolerable music for that instrument and a clean sounding CD, cranked up, over some good headphones would probably cause your consciousness to retreat to the very center of your brain, somewhere near the pineal gland. Fight fire with fire, I say.
