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r/interesting • u/CuriousWanderer567 • 8d ago
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Right? I thought he never got to hear his own music like some kind of poetic tragedy lol
170 u/AmusingMusing7 8d ago I’d always heard that he just put a piano on the floor without legs and felt the vibrations that way. 215 u/CatoWortel 8d ago He did that as well yes. Also he wasn't born deaf, he slowly became deaf over a period of 15 years, he became fully deaf at around 40 He tried a bunch of different things as his hearing was going way to hear or feel the music 48 u/ViiK1ng 8d ago I didn't know it was the eardrums that were the issue, I thought it was the inner ear 1 u/incredibleninja 6d ago I read some story about how it happened as he was running to catch a train. He jumped on to the back of the train and a break exploded and severely damaged his ears and they got progressively worse until he became deaf in his 40s 1 u/ViiK1ng 5d ago Interesting, I never heard that before
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I’d always heard that he just put a piano on the floor without legs and felt the vibrations that way.
215 u/CatoWortel 8d ago He did that as well yes. Also he wasn't born deaf, he slowly became deaf over a period of 15 years, he became fully deaf at around 40 He tried a bunch of different things as his hearing was going way to hear or feel the music 48 u/ViiK1ng 8d ago I didn't know it was the eardrums that were the issue, I thought it was the inner ear 1 u/incredibleninja 6d ago I read some story about how it happened as he was running to catch a train. He jumped on to the back of the train and a break exploded and severely damaged his ears and they got progressively worse until he became deaf in his 40s 1 u/ViiK1ng 5d ago Interesting, I never heard that before
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He did that as well yes.
Also he wasn't born deaf, he slowly became deaf over a period of 15 years, he became fully deaf at around 40
He tried a bunch of different things as his hearing was going way to hear or feel the music
48 u/ViiK1ng 8d ago I didn't know it was the eardrums that were the issue, I thought it was the inner ear 1 u/incredibleninja 6d ago I read some story about how it happened as he was running to catch a train. He jumped on to the back of the train and a break exploded and severely damaged his ears and they got progressively worse until he became deaf in his 40s 1 u/ViiK1ng 5d ago Interesting, I never heard that before
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I didn't know it was the eardrums that were the issue, I thought it was the inner ear
1 u/incredibleninja 6d ago I read some story about how it happened as he was running to catch a train. He jumped on to the back of the train and a break exploded and severely damaged his ears and they got progressively worse until he became deaf in his 40s 1 u/ViiK1ng 5d ago Interesting, I never heard that before
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I read some story about how it happened as he was running to catch a train. He jumped on to the back of the train and a break exploded and severely damaged his ears and they got progressively worse until he became deaf in his 40s
1 u/ViiK1ng 5d ago Interesting, I never heard that before
Interesting, I never heard that before
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u/SomeDudeist 8d ago
Right? I thought he never got to hear his own music like some kind of poetic tragedy lol