A show-and-tell-and-discuss vlog: Carl Schroeder discovers in Oliver Sacks' book, Musicophilia, that there exists two different types of deafness in music: rhythm and tone. Do these people who are rhythm or tone deaf need American Sign Language?
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
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Some people with perfectly normal hearing are soooooo tone-deaf they do not appreciate music. My music professor's hearing husband was tone-deaf and did not have any musical appreciation.
Some deaf people like myself are not tone-deaf. About 25 students and I took music courses and insgrumental lessons at Gallaudet from 1989 to 1994. The percentage of our hearing loss ranged from 70 dB to 115dB. I would experience an euphoria everytime I play a certain string such as an "E" on the violin or the cello. The "A" pitch does not hit the core of my brain as much as the "E" pitch. I used to have 70 dB in the better ear when I was in the 10th grade at school, 85-90 dB when in college, and then 115 dB at NYU. So to answer your question, I do not need ASL, but I would like to hear what other deaf people would have to say about this. One must bear in mind that a person does not have to be hearing or deaf to be musically tone-deaf.
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