I have gone to this dentist for 20 years now. It was actually four years after I moved to the area that I chose this dentist, and it was only because I kept walking past his office.
They've known for a long time that they switch to classical music when I show up. It's bad enough to sit in the waiting room and listen to what passes for country music these days, but once I'm in the chair, even though about half the time the machine that cleans my teeth makes noise, that there will be nothing that will bother me. In fact, classical music can actually relax me. The one problem is that for years certain styles of classical music bothered me outside the dentist office becuase they made me think of the dentist.
On my last visit a year ago, I was actually in a room where the speaker was off. That was fine too. But the hygienist didn't put me in that room. And I was still hearing so-called music that wasn't classical, and I told her how it was going to be. She came back and said the classical station was having signal problems. The weather was pretty bad that day. By this time I had heard the station ID for K-104.7. There's more on the Charlotte board, but in summary, they are shaving toruble deciding whether to be AC or hot AC and have settled on AC for now, though when I went to the barber several years ago I was amazed at how conservative an AC this was, though at night they seemed to occasionally venture into hot AC territory. Still, even that music mix wouldn't have been pleasant in the dentist chair. And what has been said on this board about ACs today is true of K-104.7--so I said they could just turn the music off, because while I didn't say it, given what I have read here and on the Charlotte board there was NO WAY. The hygienist said other people want to listen to music. I guess I can understand that since it might help them relax, but for me this style just won't do. There was one option--that room where the speaker could be turned off, but she said I'd have to wait. I thought that meant a long wait, and she also suggested coming back another day, but I said if I walk out that door I'm not coming back. Seriously, I couldn't see ever going to the dentist again. But it was just a five-minute wait, and she sugested walking around. That worked, and when I came back, they ahd that room ready and all was well. It was a lucky thing those storms hadn't arrived, though when I left I di have to walk in the rain because I was parked at the library several blocks away.
But the point is: this isn't about target audiences, or what people grew up with, or what makes money. This is about having something very unpleasant forced on me in a very stressful sitation that only makes it worse. This sin't even like a professional office, which is bad enough. And I guarantee if my grocery store played this mess, the music would go off each time I walked in there.
They've known for a long time that they switch to classical music when I show up. It's bad enough to sit in the waiting room and listen to what passes for country music these days, but once I'm in the chair, even though about half the time the machine that cleans my teeth makes noise, that there will be nothing that will bother me. In fact, classical music can actually relax me. The one problem is that for years certain styles of classical music bothered me outside the dentist office becuase they made me think of the dentist.
On my last visit a year ago, I was actually in a room where the speaker was off. That was fine too. But the hygienist didn't put me in that room. And I was still hearing so-called music that wasn't classical, and I told her how it was going to be. She came back and said the classical station was having signal problems. The weather was pretty bad that day. By this time I had heard the station ID for K-104.7. There's more on the Charlotte board, but in summary, they are shaving toruble deciding whether to be AC or hot AC and have settled on AC for now, though when I went to the barber several years ago I was amazed at how conservative an AC this was, though at night they seemed to occasionally venture into hot AC territory. Still, even that music mix wouldn't have been pleasant in the dentist chair. And what has been said on this board about ACs today is true of K-104.7--so I said they could just turn the music off, because while I didn't say it, given what I have read here and on the Charlotte board there was NO WAY. The hygienist said other people want to listen to music. I guess I can understand that since it might help them relax, but for me this style just won't do. There was one option--that room where the speaker could be turned off, but she said I'd have to wait. I thought that meant a long wait, and she also suggested coming back another day, but I said if I walk out that door I'm not coming back. Seriously, I couldn't see ever going to the dentist again. But it was just a five-minute wait, and she sugested walking around. That worked, and when I came back, they ahd that room ready and all was well. It was a lucky thing those storms hadn't arrived, though when I left I di have to walk in the rain because I was parked at the library several blocks away.
But the point is: this isn't about target audiences, or what people grew up with, or what makes money. This is about having something very unpleasant forced on me in a very stressful sitation that only makes it worse. This sin't even like a professional office, which is bad enough. And I guarantee if my grocery store played this mess, the music would go off each time I walked in there.
