My brain keeps shouting at me. It needn’t. I can hear it perfectly well. In fact, I can now hear pretty much EVERYTHING close to perfectly and count myself lucky. All that wonderful, adaptive, refined technology now nestling in and behind my ears is doing its level best to bring me pitch perfect sound with […]
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No one knows why Beethoven went deaf. We know a great deal about how he suffered for it. How his forte piano had sawn-off legs so he could detect the vibrations of the different notes when that was all he had left. How he struggled with the anguish of encroaching deafness. At one point considering
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On cold, clear, still bright winter mornings, you’d hear it. A little like the sound of the jet engines of planes taking off from Birmingham (then Elmdon) Airport, only it was everywhere. A hushed roar, there to greet me as I woke up on those schooldays, back in the sixties. ‘The Brum roar’, the Evening
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