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Living with musical people.
Ulysses S. Grant admitted he knew only two tunes: "One of them is 'Yankee Doodle' and the other isn't." (1) He was musically challenged.
Others have had a problem living with musical people. The most erudite of these in the English language is Charles Lamb (1775-1834). In Essays of Elia he writes: (2)
I have no ear.
Mistake me not, reader, nor imagine that I am by nature destitute of those exterior twin appendages ... handsome volutes to the human capital....
When ... I say that I have no ear, you will understand me to mean--for music. To say that this heart never melted at the concord of sweet sounds would be a foul self-libel. ...
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- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Meersman, Tom May 18, 1996 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Oakland Post Charles Aikens May 10, 1995 700+ words
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