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An 18th-century drawing of ear trumpets. An ear trumpet is a tubular or funnel-shaped device which collects sound waves and leads them into the ear.They are used as hearing aids, resulting in a strengthening of the sound energy impact to the eardrum and thus improved hearing for a deaf or hard-of-hearing individual.
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They are distributed around the room, most conversing rather than drawing or painting. Sir Joshua Reynolds, the President of the Royal Academy, is in black to the left of centre, with his ear trumpet. Zoffany became a Royal Academician in 1769, and he includes himself as a self portrait at the far left, with his palette.
Well-known models of the period included the Townsend Trumpet (made by the deaf educator John Townshend), the Reynolds Trumpet (specially built for painter Joshua Reynolds) and the Daubeney Trumpet. The first firm to begin commercial production of the ear trumpet was established by Frederick C. Rein in London in 1800.
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A modern behind the ear hearing aid with a minicell battery. Behind the ear hearing aids are one of two major classes of hearing aids – behind the ear (BTE) and in the ear (ITE). These two classes are distinguished by where the hearing aid is worn. BTE hearing aids consist of a case which hangs behind the pinna. The case is attached to an ...
Meuron with her characteristic ear trumpet Louise Elisabeth de Meuron (22 August 1882 – 22 May 1980), known as Madame de Meuron , was a well-known eccentric Swiss aristocrat from Bern . She owned several houses in the Bernese old town as well as the alpine meadowland known as Rämisgummen above Eggiwil .
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