[LAU] Re: We’ve Got the Beat - in Our Genes

On 5/21/25 02:07, Bengt Gördén wrote:
> I have been practicing music all my conscious life. 

I started playing piano along with the radio at age two. Started formal 
lessons at three.

The first song I remember singing loudly and obsessively (with my little 
sister) was the Beatles song "She Loves You" - I think that "Yeah, yeah 
yeah!" chorus was designed for kids!

> My father was basically unmusical but not averse to it. He probably 
> enjoyed that I enjoyed it. My mother did not show much interest in 
> music except for a few (about 10-20) singles from the 60s. I played at 
> her 50th, 60th and 70th birthdays and she seemed happy and content 
> with the way it sounded. I get a pretty high score on the Barcelona 
> Music Reward Questionnaire. Maybe there is something further back in 
> my family or I'm just a mutant.
>
> What might make me raise my eyebrows in the referenced study is that 
> there are >9000 twins. According to statistics, there are about 45000 
> twins aged 37-64. A little more than 20% of all twins of that age in 
> Sweden participated in the study.
>
>
It seems to me that makes it a very big study. Excellent!

I also wonder what impact culture and environment might have. Do places 
like Sweden and northern Europe, marked by times of extended winter 
darkness, encourage people to do music at home, more than south European 
cultures in warmer climates and more sunlight? I think family singing 
and storytelling were done a lot more in the days when everyone was 
stuck indoors and outside entertainment wasn't available. Think of the 
famous Welsh choirs, grown in a population in which everyone sang.

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