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Watch Sax Player Serenade Doctors During His Brain Surgery

A saxophone player received a round of applause from unlikely fans, while in a strange position: as he lay on the operating table. Music teacher Dan Fabbio, 25, had been diagnosed with a benign brain tumor that had been growing slowly since childhood, and which threatened his musical career.

Following a successful surgery to remove the tumor, Fabbio proved his musical ability had been preserved by delivering a perfect saxophone performance right there in the operating room.

“He played it flawlessly and when he finished the entire operating room erupted in applause,” said Elizabeth Marvin, a professor of music theory in the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, in a statement.

Leading up to the surgery, researchers had to determine exactly where musical information was processed in Fabbio’s brain so they could map it. In a case study, published in Current Biology, Marvin, along with Brad Mahon, an associate professor in the University of Rochester’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, developed a series of musical tests for Fabbio to perform while inside an MRI machine. This type of scan is able to detect changes in oxygen levels, so the parts of the brain that were activated during testing could help researchers map the areas important for music and language processing. During these tests, Fabbio was asked to listen to and then hum back a series of short melodies. In addition, he performed language tasks where he would identify objects and repeat sentences.

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