ear trumpet
Example Sentences
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She presided over these salons despite deafness that required visitors to all but shout into her ear trumpet.
From New York Times
I often wonder how Beethoven would react to modern-day hearing aids considering his great frustration with the ear trumpets of his day.
From New York Times
Has 21 activities, such as how to make an ear trumpet, a device Beethoven used to help him hear better.
From Washington Post
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.
From New York Times
Among the other treasures jostling for space inside her living room were a taxidermied two-headed chick, a tchotchke of conjoined twins, an ear trumpet from the eighteen-hundreds, and a ventriloquist’s dummy.
From The New Yorker
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