Could piped music in shops cause customers to make a bolt for it? | Letters

Nigel Rodgers of the Pipedown campaign, Dorothy Lewis, Peter Suchin and Hugh Edwards on the intrusive nature of ‘background’ musicJake Hulyer seems to accept the claims of the piped or background music industry with remarkable credulity (The long read, 6 November). Piped music is loathed by many in Britain. People with a huge range of health problems – from autism to tinnitus, ME to hyperacusis, impaired vision to reduced hearing – find that non-stop music in public place