I’ve started working at my local Starbucks in the mornings, because I get distracted too easily at home. <\/p>\n
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<\/em>. It only happens every now and then, but it’s all, like, “ungh” and stuff.<\/p>\n Like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}