No "Ear for Music."

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 16 October 1914, Page 2

No "Ear for Music."

Dr. Birman-Bera, after making a study of the ears of famous musicians, has come to the conclusion that the construction of- that organ has little to do with one's musical appreciation, and that it is not necessary to have even normal eardrums" to become a finished musician/ Dr.- Birman-Bera says that his observations have shown that composers as a class have erect, almost vertical ear-drums, and that musicians other than composers have ear-drums the position of which varies from the slanting to the vertical, including all intermediate forms. Whether. Dr. Birman-Bera's discovery will result in the discarding of that handy and much-used but now useless phrase, "an ear for music," of course, remains to be seen.