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It’s not just ears, but throats too
From Adele, currently stuggling with voice problems (BBC story here), to the significantly less-well renumerated librarian occasionally dragged in front of rapt audiences to explain the arcane magic of...
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As well as being a library for Audiology & Deafness, we also cover ENT and part of that includes voice disorders. The voice is a delicate instrument and can be easily damaged. Many people use their...
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There is, perhaps surprisingly, a large amount of literature on Deaf people and music. In response to a Guardian article which mentioned deaf children feeling the vibrations of instruments here is some...
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Voice trainer, Emil Behnke, “as accurate as Huxley and as fascinating as...
Emil Behnke (1836-1892) was born in Stettin, the son of a merchant, but became a naturalized British subject. From around 1860 he began to study the voice, and “the physiological aspects of singing...
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New books at the Ear Institute Library
Summer has brought a bumper delivery of new books to the libraries, and in this post I would like to bring to your attention the new titles to be found in the Ear Institute collection. First I’d like...
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