dgd1788 wrote:
Captain_Brown wrote:
I was thinking of who was the deaf famous music composer was. It was Beethoven once I looked it up in one of my books. He was able to hear the music in his head. Don't you think that is really cool? I can hear the music in my head, but I can hear it better when I play it aloud.
Not only could he hear the music in his head, but he could also feel the vibrations off the keys and distinguish tones, pretty neat huh?
May I interject? Most of the evidence seems to have pointed to Beethoven being deaf due to conductive deafness, ie the bones in his middle ear weren't working properly. So bone conduction would work, which is how feeling the vibrations of things could help him distinguish notes. Bone conduction works by making the bone around the cochlea vibrate and from then on the process of hearing is the same. Many deaf musicians who are conductively deaf make use of this principle. And this principle is also made use of by bone anchored hearing aids
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