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She presided over these salons despite deafness that required visitors to all but shout into her ear trumpet.

I often wonder how Beethoven would react to modern-day hearing aids considering his great frustration with the ear trumpets of his day.

Has 21 activities, such as how to make an ear trumpet, a device Beethoven used to help him hear better.

Then there were the ear trumpets he used, hornlike metal devices that were created for him to stick in his ears by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, an inventor who also made his metronomes.

I knew he couldn’t hear Miss Love’s music, not without his ear trumpet.