Before we left, Uncle Gocha turned on a scratched plastic radio, which piped music through the building's outdoor speaker system.
Salisbury MP Robert Key said that his Ten-Minute Rule Bill to restrict piped music in public places was not against music.
But Mr Key does want to ban piped music - or "muzak" as it is known - from public places such as NHS hospitals, doctors' surgeries, public swimming pools, bus and railway stations and airports.
He said they had to put up with piped Christmas music and that this amounted to abuse in itself.
Experts discovered that the piped classical music was most effective at deterring troublemakers, after carrying out tests using country tunes and jazz.
But on the Greek cruise ships, where businessmen from some 350 foreign firms were parked, there was a marked absence of Arabs among the customers listening to piped bouzouki music.
It was sleek and modern, with recessed lighting, classical music piped into the waiting areas, and nurses moving from patient to patient behind rolling black computer pods.
To the accompaniment of baroque recorder music piped through the building, Tetsuo Shimokawa, the chairman of Dogin, a local bank, blames poor communications with the rest of Japan for the island's woes.
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The company has spent several years developing a "portable people meter"--a cell-phone-sized device that panelists could carry with them and automatically record not only radio signals but television sound and even such other acoustic sources as music piped in at a grocery store.
Traditional Kyoto folk music is piped through the sound system.
On the rare occasions I've visited spas, I'd gone for the full-meal deal massage, sauna, swimming pool, piped-in new-age music.
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