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From: bert@aiva.edinburgh.ac.UK (Bert Hutchings)
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Subject: Re: I got rhythm
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From: Bert Hutchings 
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 88 09:59 EDT
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Subject: Re: I got rhythm
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Summary: Me too, but not everybody

In article <19880915011053.7.NICK@HOWARD-JOHNSONS.LCS.MIT.EDU> Phil Goetz
asked "Why do we have rhythm?  . . .  Why do we, in fact, have rhythm?"

Most of us have, but...  My wife taught music to young schoolchildren and
found an occasional exception.  We know one rhythm-deaf adult too, unable
to keep a beat, or to distinguish a regular one from a slightly irregular
one.  I estimate between 1/50 and 1/200 of people have this condition.