incredible musical coincidence
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Just watched the 'tails you win....' t.v programme (very interesting) and it prompted me to share this with you:
A few years ago I had music playing quietly on my hi-fi and my girlfriend was behind me on the sofa on her laptop. I realised she was humming along to the music perfectly in tune and time. This continued for about 16 bars (i'm a musician) until i turned round to tell her (jokingly!) to shut up as
i was trying to record a mix and i thought she was doing it to put me off. I was very, very surprised to see she was listening to her own music on headphones on her laptop! We have very different tastes of music.
As I said, she was perfectly in tune and perfectly in time and it was quite a complex melody. If this had happened only for 1 or 2 bars it would have been odd but for 16 BARS!? It was the highlight of my day.
Hope you find this interesting
Carl jordan
Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jun 2014 00:56:43 +0000Coincidence ID:7614
