Dear Editor,

Re: City of Music a go next year (Merritt Herald, July 30)

Merritt is an extra loud town. I don’t mean the diesel pickups or the motorcycles or the the sawmills ? I mean the music. For some strange reason, the music is played at about 25 decibels over the safe limit, and to save our souls and our sanity, someone needs to turn the volume down.

Whether soothing or exciting, we all enjoy music in some form or another. But the chamber of commerce seems confused over cacophony (the loud and distorted sound of music) and of how many decibels we can safely be exposed to. Anything over 85 decibels and especially over 105 decibels is damaging to our hearing and dangerous to our health.

‘Twas not the music that drove the ravens and the crows from town, nor was it the music that forced residents to close their windows on such a hot and muggy evening ? ’twas the bloody head-splitting volume!

Neil MacLean

Merritt