How to listen to music.

Thank you for posting this! It was very informative and taught me that too much of the time I depend on my ears. And as someone who attends large symphony performances I should know better for while I am at the performances I am aware that I feel the music in my whole body at times. I believe that Evelyn makes several excellent points, and kudos to some of her teachers for their insight. I watched it twice!

Fascinating - thanks for sharing!Lots of good take aways from this.

It is more than just her teachers zkidd. She has a nervous system that is naturally wired for percussion. The vast majority of us could never play like that deaf or not. We will never understand how she perceives sound because we are not deaf. When you lose a sense at a young age the part of your nervous system that was supposed to be used the perceive that sense gets transferred to the remaining senses heightening them. Our nervous systems are that flexible. People who are blind from childhood have a heightened sense of hearing. Evelyn has a heightened sense of feeling. We also feel music, we just can't divide it into notes like she can.

**** When you lose a sense at a young age the part of your nervous system that was supposed to be used the perceive that sense gets transferred to the remaining senses heightening them. Our nervous systems are that flexible ****

That’s exactly right and serves as a great lesson re what is possible for music lovers as well as audiophiles who are blessed to have all of our senses. There is a great story that is part of musicians’ lore concerning the great Ray Charles who was blind from a very early age.

One of Ray Charles’ favorite musicians and long time sideman in his big bands was the baritone saxophonist Leroy Cooper. Years after Cooper retired from Ray’s orchestra, the musicians decided to surprise Ray one night and brought Cooper in to play in the orchestra without telling Ray. When the saxophone section came in for the first time in the first tune of the night, Ray instantly spun around and shouted “Coop!”. He had recognized Cooper’s tone in the middle of a 17 piece orchestra.

The next time someone tells you that you can’t possibly be hearing any difference between those fuses......

You can't possibly be hearing any difference between those fuses.