The unsuspecting millions are also none the wiser as to what is being done to their listening habits, how they are being conditioned by the mass- and mess- of sound that is aimed at them. They hear the cinema organ’s wobble and probably they like it because it reminds them of the human voice or of the vibrato of a stringed instrument. But they don’t realize something that came to me with a shock the other day when I was listening to a popular music broadcast: that the process is being reversed nowadays, that we seem to have reached the point where the string orchestra is imitating the cinema organ. Thus the vicious circle seems to be completed. << less