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Show COBRESPOSDEXCE. Salt Lake City, August 30, 'TO. Ed. Herald : In Tuesday morning's morn-ing's issue of your paper I notice an article headed "Listening with the Teeth." Now, I am one of those whom nature has "gifted" (?) with deafness. Not only "by placing the instrument between the teeth," is the sou-.id conveyed to xne ueau, uue uy placing the hand or foot against the object playing, or having hold of a string or anything attached to the instrument, in-strument, sound is produced as easily as holding "with the teeth;" but when held to the ear or close to the body, by another person there is not any sound at all. Sound never enters the ear of the deaf, but is conveyed along the nerves, commencing with the part holding or touching the vibrating vi-brating string, and goes slowly tingling through the nervous system till it is felt as though the person was a fiddle and some one was tuning him up roughly. It is almost impossible to describe the sensation produced. I have tried this process on persons that could hear, by stopping their ears with my fingers and attaching a string to the hand or teeth, but am confident the vibrating sound does not act so powerfully on them as on deaf persons. Respectfully, Mite. |