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	Tone deafness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Someone who cannot reproduce pitches accurately, because of lack of training or tone deafness, is said to be unable to "carry a tune." Tone deafness affects ability to hear pitch changes produced by a musical instrument and/or the human voice.
		Tone deaf people often lack a sense of musical aesthetics, and much like a color blind person would not be apt to appreciate colorful visual art, some tone deaf people cannot appreciate music.
		Tone deafness is also associated with other musical-specific impairments such as inability to keep time with music (the lack of rhythm), or the inability to remember or even recognize a song.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tone_deaf (460 words)

	TONE-DEAFNESS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Tone deafness is does not refer to a problem with the ears, but to a lack of training.
		Tone deafness is easy to fix by training the ears and the vocal muscles.
		When a so-called "tone deaf" person has the courage to work on his or her problem, it is worth the effort, as it is often a very difficult and time&endash;consuming process.
	hubel.sfasu.edu /courseinfo/SL02/tone-deafness.htm (1407 words)

	Pinyin news » Blog Archive » Tonal languages and the tone deaf
		Tone deaf means a person cannot hear the difference between two successive tones.
		In other words, her comment “Tone deaf means a person cannot hear the difference between two successive tones.
		The musical tones may not be indistinguishable as much as that the person doesn’t have a label to attach to them, in order to call them something different.
	pinyin.info /news/2005/tonal-languages-and-the-tone-deaf (1405 words)

	Are You Tone Deaf? - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		To be tone deaf basically means to be so preoccupied with the mental chatter in your head that you are cut off from your ability to discern how other people feel about themselves when they are in your presence.
		We've isolated four predominant styles of tone deafness through four creatures: the predator, the peacock, the clam and the mother hen.
		Click here for a slide show on the most common types of tone deaf executives, with the belief that recognizing yourself may be the first step to a cure.
	www.forbes.com /2006/02/01/tone-deaf-execs-cx_mc_0203deaf.html (699 words)

	Halfbakery: Hearing Aids for the Tone Deaf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Enter tone deaf hearing aids: the present version is like the aforementioned headphones but includes microphones to intercept the wearer’s malformed melody.
		Thus if the wearer is “singing” a tone flat compared to the music, the music’s pitch of that tone is raised by the same amount.
		The music’s sharper tone entering the ear, causes the wearer to raise the pitch and sing the tone in key.
	www.halfbakery.com /lr/idea/Hearing_20Aids_20for_20the_20Tone_20Deaf (197 words)

	www.myspace.com/weweretonedeaf
		Tone Deaf are back and on the verge of making new and painfully bad music once again.
		Tackling unimportant and largely dull topics that no one in their right mind is interested in and managing to make them even less exciting than before.
		That is the true Tone Deaf talent, and it will continue to corrupt the musical tastes of anyone listening if this is allowed to go on.
	www.myspace.com /weweretonedeaf (164 words)

	lexBlog: Tone Deaf
		Some students are downloading a ring tone off the Internet that is too high-pitched to be heard by most adults.
		The ring tone is a spin-off of technology that was originally meant to repel teenagers -- not help them.
		A Welsh security company developed the tone to help shopkeepers disperse young people loitering in front of their stores while leaving adults unaffected.
	lex.zogblaster.com /archives/2006/06/tone_deaf.html (295 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Health \| Experts tune in on tone deafness
		Scientists say they are closer to pinpointing the root cause of tone deafness by tracking the brain patterns of people with the condition.
		The brains of the tone deaf volunteers did not appear to respond to pitch deviances smaller than one semitone, whereas those of the controls did so reliably.
		He pointed out that although many people mistakenly believe or are told that they are tone deaf, amusia is actually a unique and relatively rare condition.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/4181872.stm (402 words)

	Mono/Semi Tone - Tone Deaf Canada - SemiTone.ca
		Mono Tone is Mark's solo project...just him, a guitar (or two), and a mitt full of harmonicas...playing everything from Jim Croce to AC/DC.
		The most common configuration for Semi Tone is Adam on bass and Mark on guitar and vocals, but any mix of Tone Deaf band members is possible.
		Tone Deaf (ToneDeaf) - Mono Tone (MonoTone) - Semi Tone (SemiTone) 1214
	tonedeaf.fanspace.com /mono_tone.html (726 words)

	TAP: Web Feature: Tone Deaf. by Michael Tomasky. May 21, 2003. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		I looked around at the nodding heads and realized that this formulation seemed to strike only me as blatant doublespeak: He was twisting the knife into Bill Clinton's flesh while swearing in the next breath that in a Bush-run Washington, no such knife twisting would be tolerated.
		Therefore the tone of robber-bank relations will change." But Washington is a strange place, morally, and so, while many insiders acknowledge privately that this is pretty much the situation, publicly -- especially after September 11, but also just for the sake of the town's self-esteem -- a fiction of something approximating dignity must be maintained.
		Even so, if the tone change were merely about the dissimulations of a press flack, it would be easily tolerable -- and easy to counter.
	www.prospect.org /webfeatures/2003/05/tomasky-m-05-21.html (1211 words)

	USATODAY.com - Tonal language for tone-deaf, an Enterprising question (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Moreover, the tones we use in languages are coarse discriminators that even a disabled person can manage.
		We often think of "tone deafness" in its lay meaning — "unable to carry a tune or sing a song." That's different from the medical meaning of "inability to distinguish successive tones." Almost all people (except the medically tone deaf) can learn to sing with training.
		With the help of language cues, they can distinguish varying tones and learn the gross tonal discriminations of their language.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/columnist/aprilholladay/2005-10-06-tone-deaf-enterprise_x.htm (903 words)

	Am I Tone Deaf? - StoneDragon's Guitar Discusion Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		I think I hear the right tones, but it is always way off, and not always the same sharp or flat.
		Virtually all guitarists tune with an electronic tuner, or at least by using a source tone (tuning fork, pitch pipe, another instrument, etc.) for a given note, then tuning the other strings relative to the one tuned to the source.
		I know someone who is tone deaf and he enjoys music, but can't hear the nuances of it.
	www.zentao.com /ubb/Forum2/HTML/000651.html (1203 words)

	Jeremy Dean \| PsyBlog \| Psychology Blog \|: Tone Deaf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Music seems to require a much more fine-grained differentiation of tones than any other form of auditory perception.
		In populations that speak tonal languages like Vietnamese and Cantonese, amusia is almost unknown - perhaps practice at a young age makes perfect.
		Recent research suggests that children can be trained to discriminate tones but adults are normally stuck with their disability.
	www.spring.org.uk /2005/08/tone-deaf.htm (233 words)

	Tone deaf teachers
		In order to evade rules against using cell-phones in class, some students are downloading a ring tone off the Internet that is too high-pitched to be heard by most adults.
		This means that any teen can set this particular tone, a favorite part of a song, or even a phrase he or she recorded as the ring tone without the cell phone makers or cell service being involved.
		To make the tone available as a ring tone all anyone has to do is have it recorded in the right format and then download the tone from the computer to the cell phone-functions that are easy to do with free software.
	www.worldmagblog.com /blog/archives/024931.html (931 words)

	The Blog \| Arianna Huffington: Democratic Messaging: Politically (Ring) Tone Deaf \| The Huffington Post
		Its leaders have adopted a political tone that can't be heard by a huge segment of the population.
		Take Diane Feinstein's politically tone deaf appearance on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, during which she was asked about the New York Times breaking the banking surveillance program story.
		But Democratic leaders today are absolutely tone deaf to anything that sounds like core Democratic and constitutional values of human rights, civil liberties and social justice.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /arianna-huffington/democratic-messaging-pol_b_24450.html (3855 words)

	www.myspace.com/tonedeafcanada
		Tone Deaf is a classic rock party band!
		Rock and roll was meant to be fun…and Tone Deaf doesn’t let you forget that!
		Oh, and just so you remember you are reading a band bio, “These guys are really talented and wildly handsome!” Wow, can’t believe I got that out with a straight face.
	www.myspace.com /tonedeafcanada (237 words)

	Toronto Rehearsal Studio Space - Gruvrok Rehearsal Studio
		These medical definitions clear up once and for all that true tone deafness is a rare medical condition.
		For the self-declared tone-deaf, or for those who were told by others that they are tone-deaf, understand that that is bullshit.
		Background: When two tones are very close in pitch they warble, or vibrate.
	www.gruvrok.com /tone_deaf.html (953 words)

	Contact Us/Links - Tone Deaf Canada - ToneDeaf.ca
		They get some fairly big names playing there too...like Tone Deaf forinstance.
		Why would they be friends of Tone Deaf...well, the drummer, "Archie", had the miss fortune of past association with our own Mark.
		There are kind of everything Tone Deaf isn't...talented, good looking, and more often than not, sober.
	www.tonedeaf.fanspace.com /contact.html (1733 words)

	NPR - All Things Considered
		She played her several sequences of five tones, with the fourth tone in each either rising or falling in pitch.
		And for some reason, she couldn't identify tone differences that were lower than the surrounding tones.
		The difficult part is finding ways to tell who really is tone deaf.
	npr.org /programs/atc/features/2002/jan/tonedeaf/020116.tonedeaf.html (795 words)

	The Tone-Deaf Mushroom
		Lewis proposes that the reason behind American bilingual education is that Hispanic children should not have to learn English because they “are at risk for losing their cultural identity” by learning English.
		Hayakawa tones that notion down to merely say that bilingual education sometimes comes “dangerously close” to making avoidance of English the main goal, a declaration that still seeks to undermine claims that English’s presence in America is secure.
		King admits that “in much of the world, ethnic unity and cultural identification are routinely defined by language,” so it is fair to ask whether it is wrong for Americans to define Americanism as including English speech.
	tonedeafmushroom.blogspot.com (2755 words)

	Test Your Skill: Are You Tone Deaf? - Gizmodo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		We're here to assist you in your slacking and help you prepare for Thanksgiving at the same time, suggesting that you take this tone deafness test from musician and researcher Jake Mandell.
		And I am tone deaf, with high pitch hearing loss and tinnitus (I had cisplatin-based chemotherapy for cancer).
		Regardless, my older brother and sister like to say I'm tone deaf (they say I also have no rhythm) because I'm also smart and try to hide my insecurities with a dry sarcastic additude so they just think I have a big ego (quite the opposite really).
	gizmodo.com /gadgets/.../test-your-skill-are-you-tone-deaf-216640.php (1531 words)

	Tone Deaf to the Scriptures
		If that was your experience, you may also have noticed how the tone of the first paragraph spilled into the second one of Scripture quotes, giving them a color and flavor that enhances their meaning.
		Most people completely miss the tone of the Sermon on the Mount...oblivious to the combination of wonderful sarcasm, wit, exaggeration, teasing, playfulness, admonishment, and humor throughout Jesus’ words to the overhearing crowd as He taught His disciples.
		Life and holy Scripture have a luscious cadence, a compelling tone, and musically resplendent layers of color, flavor, feeling and meaning that, in the end, can be best spoken about by living and dancing our gratitude for being able to enter its mystery.
	www.prayergear.com /weeklyMarch204.html (1363 words)

	WorldNetDaily: White House: Tone deaf or brain dead? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		I don't know what's crazier and more politically inept – the original decision to contract the management of six major U.S. ports in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Miami and New Orleans or the White House's continued defense of the idea in the face of overwhelming criticism.
		Of course, they could also drive them across the unguarded border, more proof – four-and-half years after Sept. 11, 2001 – that the Bush administration is irresponsible, suicidal, insane or incompetent.
		Politically tone deaf doesn't begin to explain such lapses in judgment.
	worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48945 (676 words)

	Michael Novak on Operation Iraqi Freedom & Europe on National Review Online
		Our pacifist theologians are always speaking of "peace," but the tone in which they write, especially of those who disagree with them, is bombastic, fiery and murderously polemical.
		I was disappointed to read the article you sent me by the renowned and holy monk Enzo Bianchi.
		It is written in a tone of denunciation and invective that is unworthy of him.
	www.nationalreview.com /novak/novak040703.asp (843 words)

	Tone Deaf Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Tone deafness means that everything sounds exactly the same.
		People make jokes about being tone deaf, but it's really very rare.
		Not being able to carry a tune in the shower doesn't qualify.
	hicards.com /platinum/bizarre/5-15.html (71 words)

	CNN.com - Scientists tune in to tone deafness - Apr 18, 2006
		LONDON, England (CNN) -- Most people know somebody who claims to be "tone deaf." Now scientists in the UK are using the Internet to conduct the largest ever investigation into the musical listening disorder.
		More than 70,000 people have already taken part in the online study which aims to discover just how many people suffer from the condition, properly known as "amusia" by neurologists.
		Despite popular misconceptions, tone deafness has nothing to do with an inability to sing, Stewart said: "Many people struggle to hit the right notes but, unlike amusics, they can hear when they are off key.
	edition.cnn.com /2006/TECH/science/04/18/tonedeafness.study/index.html (417 words)

	Jay Reding.com - More Political Tone Deafness From The Bush Administration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		More Political Tone Deafness From The Bush Administration
		The Bush Administration has once again stepped on its own feet with the politically tone-deaf decision to let a Middle Eastern company run several major US ports.
		When you’re under attack from all sides, the very last thing you should do is paint a huge bulls-eye right on your ass - which is precisely what Bush seems to be doing at the moment.
	www.jayreding.com /archives/2006/02/21/more-political-tone-deafness-from-the-bush-administration (1098 words)

	Blaze Audio Discussions: tone deaf
		This got me to thinking about tone deafness and a possible cure.
		Many of my students come to me and tell me flat out that they are tone deaf, but love to sing.
		When I ask them how they know they are tone deaf, they tell me they can hear that they are not singing on pitch.
	www.blazeaudio.com /cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=19&t=000008 (1296 words)

	Tone deaf: Mobile users cool to ringtone appeal- The Economic Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Tone deaf: Mobile users cool to ringtone appeal- The Economic Times
		Tone deaf: Mobile users cool to ringtone appeal
		MUMBAI: Contrary to general perception that ringtone downloads are a huge source of income for mobile service providers, the fact is mobile users, after the initial attraction, have been shying away from the download offers in recent months.
	www1.economictimes.indiatimes.com /articleshow/1238680.cms (354 words)

	Cognitive Daily: Are you tone deaf? Take the test!
		There's an interesting site up which claims to be able to test whether or not you are tone deaf (the technical term for this condition is amusia).
		I suppose you could remove some of the memory element by allowing the selections to be replayed - presumably this would help people who can distinguish the tones, but would not help tonedeaf people at all.
		I got 94.4, and there were in fact some that I was unsure of by memory, so I was actually expecting a lower score.
	scienceblogs.com /cognitivedaily/2006/11/are_you_tone_deaf_take_the_tes.php (2043 words)

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