I’ve started working at my local Starbucks in the mornings, because I get distracted too easily at home.
Starbucks plays music, and people talk. For that reason, I bring my headphones and play my own music. This morning I discovered a problem: My very favorite classical ensembles are European (Academy of St. Martin in the Fields is today’s choice). They tune to an ‘A’ that’s just a hair flat of the American standard (440Hz rather than 444, I think, I could have it backwards too). I don’t usually even notice, not being blessed with perfect pitch. However, when the starbucks music and my headphone music are in related keys, the notes clash. It only happens every now and then, but it’s all, like, “ungh” and stuff.
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