So, is this just another example of that recent (american?) phenomenon "fake news"? The google string "Beethoven bone conduction" gives an awful lot of hits! And Mace beating him to it is great. :) Doesn't the custom of leaning the lute onto a table also somehow associate to the question, vibrationwise? It's quite alluring to buy the argument that Beethoven did indeed use such a contraption, considering that he was able to compose the 9th symphony while being stone deaf. G. On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 7:59 AM, howard posner <[1][email protected]> wrote: I was being unclear. I also recall Mace chomping his lute, but I was asking about Beethoven specifically. I haven't seen a source for these 20th/21st century descriptions of his using bone conduction. The very contrary account of Beethoven banging on an out-of-tune piano and howling as he composed the Missa Solemnis is from Schindler, who knew Beethoven but was every bit as much as much of a fiction writer as Dan Brown.
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