Playing classical ringtones are music to his ears.

There is someone out there who is not critical of ringtones, and he is a music professor besides! His name is Neil Cockburn and he is head of organ studies at Mount Royal's Conservatory of Music in Canada. He is quoted in CBC for saying: "A cell phone playing the classics is music to my ears". Cockburn believes that classical music as ringtones may lead to a greater appreciation of the classics and even expose people to such music for the first time, even if the quality of sound is not the greatest.

He even allows his students to bring their cell phones to class, if they set their ringtones to Bach, Beethoven or Brahms.

emily | 11:51 PM | Favorite Stories |
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