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Dinner Music May Cause Serious Spending
The holidays are approaching. If you go out to dinner, there are some new facts you need to devour. The music played in the restaurant can influence what you order and cause you to spend much more. A new British scientific study claimed that when classical music was played in restaurants it caused diners to buy more expensive desserts, coffees and fancy wines. Researchers at Britain's universities of Leicester and Surrey persuaded restaurants to cooperate with their experiments. Their experiments with music and dining consisted of having the music in the restaurants alternate between silence, pop music and classical on successive nights for eighteen days. The experiment revealed that on the evening when the classical music was played, patrons spent more money on dinner and luxury foods such as wines, appetizers, desserts and coffee. The composers of the classical music used in the experiment included Beethoven, Vivaldi, and Mahler. The music you listen to also helps your digestion. The whole dining experience should be relaxing every night. Listen to classical music at home while you dine. Have you ever walked out of a restaurant because the music was too loud? Noise is a problem in our fast society for sure. I can walk out of a restaurant if I don't like the high decibel but when I'm in my own car listening to music and hear noise in the car next to me pulsating with a beat so loud, it seems like an eternity before the light turns green and I can flee from the noise. While in Hawaii last year I was given a booklet by their Department of Health. The title is "Noise and You". Cars, motorcycles, buses, trucks, subways, trains and planes along with machines and noise at sports events can be more harmful than you may realize. Workers exposed to over 90 decibels of sound music wear earplugs. Sound in measured in two ways. One is the INTENSITY measured in decibels. The other is the FREQUENCY, which is the high and low of the pitch measured in hertz sound waves. It tells the number of vibrations per second. The volume of sound is measured in decibels. With an increase in just ten decibels, a sound of 70 seems twice as loud as a sound of 60. Here are a few of the measured sounds we encounter: Whisper
.30 decibels Our range of hearing is from 16-20,000 hertz. One hertz stand for 1 vibration per second. The lowest note on an organ is 16 hertz. 300-4,000 is normal conversation. From 400-1,000 is a barking dog while a singing bird is 3,000-15,000. Enjoy your Thanksgiving dinner and be sure to listen to music that will be healthy.
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