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Ever wish you'd kept your mouth shut?

Harry Patch, that's P-A-T-C-H, was the last surviving British soldier from World War One...Radiohead recently wrote a song about him.

Harry Partch, that's P-A-R-T-C-H, was an experimental music composer who worked with microtonal scales.

Enter Matt Friedberger, frontman of US indie rockers the Fiery Furnaces, who's not exactly a huge  Radiohead fan, and who lambasted them for writing a song about an experimental composer, scoffing "does it have 48 notes to the octave"?

Ooops.

Now US experimental popster Beck has added to the misunderstanding by posting a song on his website called Harry Partch, that’s P_A_R_T_C_H,  which actually IS about the US composer, and which even employs Partch's 43 tone scale.

Coincidence? Probably not.

Source: Pitchfork

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