Blind people, who rely on background sounds to help to find their way around, find piped music upsetting.
Gatwick airport carried out a survey of travellers' attitudes to piped music.
Third in the list of most hated things was piped music.
Now, the company provides on-hold messaging and video programming, although piped music remains its forte.
There are radios blaring, human beings shouting and yelling, dogs harking, unwanted piped music, noise from aircraft, lorries, cars and, as we are discussing, motor cycles.
Musicians of all sorts loathe piped music because they find acoustic wallpaper offensive.
Incidentally, there is no objective evidence that customers in shops either like piped music or spend more because of it.
Does the reference to piped music mean music from the bagpipes?
