Charles Limb: Building the musical muscle
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Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Dec 1, 2011
http://www.ted.com Charles Limb performs cochlear implantation, a surgery that treats hearing loss and can restore the ability to hear speech. But as a musician too, Limb thinks about what the implants lack: They don't let you fully experience music yet. (There's a hair-raising example.) At TEDMED, Limb reviews the state of the art and the way forward.
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@Majoritis or maybe to feel vibrations. . .
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@masterofsynapsis Piss off. I'm a CI recipient and I could tell the difference between the different Usher songs and the Violin and Trumpet, and the song at the beginning, it was very 'out of tune' the second time and not as cheerful and vibrant as it 'appeared' to be the first time. So I kindly and respectfully beg you to consider that this 'display of our finest' is not that, it is what he perceives to be the 'finest'. So get back to synapsing and understand that he might just be wrong.
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Nice segue into subject. Very masterful
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I'd rather lose my hearing than my eye sight. lol.
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i bet the implante useres would love dubstep with a heavy sub
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19 people want subtitles
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The reason Beethoven was able to compose after going deaf is that he had perfect pitch so he could "hear" pitches in his mind without external reference. And he did not lose 100% of his hearing as he sawed the legs off his piano and put his head to the floor to faintly hear tones
Majoritis 2 months ago 9
a musician AND a surgeon? must be the son of "high expectation asian dad"
alexhamster1134 2 months ago 7