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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.
In the course of the Moon books, however, Calculus leads a team of scientists and engineers working on a major rocket project, motivating him to adopt an ear trumpet, and later a hearing aid, and for the duration of the adventure he has near-perfect hearing. This made him a more serious character, even displaying leadership qualities that had ...
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Art for Beginners: Fun with Lines: Harlan E. Hoffa: c-11m: May 16, 1973: rereleased in 1990 Art of Film: Performance In Depth, The Many Roles of Alec Guinness: Janus Films; Saul J. Turell, Steve Greenburg & Aubrey Solomon; narrator: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. c-28m: 1978: Released by Perspective Films in 1979 Art of Film: The Camera
Solfège table in an Irish classroom. Tonic sol-fa (or tonic sol-fah) is a pedagogical technique for teaching sight-singing, invented by Sarah Anna Glover (1786–1867) of Norwich, England and popularised by John Curwen, who adapted it from a number of earlier musical systems.
It is a hollow horn, often made of wood or metal, about 200 millimetres (7.9 in) long. It functions similarly to an ear trumpet by amplifying sound. The user holds the wide end of the horn against the pregnant woman's abdomen, and listens through the other end. [1]
A similar S-shaped trumpet from the Iron Age has been found at Loughnashade in Ireland. Named the trumpa créda (archaic Irish for "bronze trumpet"), it consists of two curved tubes of bronze, each comprising a quarter circle, one of which is of conical bore and one of cylindrical bore, with a joint in the middle. The Loughnashade trumpet is ...
They are approximations of actual trumpet mutes that my school owns. I wanted to draw pictures of the mutes that aren't tied to any specific brand, so they are relatively generic. The yellow color indicates the bell of the trumpet, the beige-ish color indicates the cork of the mutes, the gray fill is the fuzz of the bucket mute, and the black ...