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A 19th Century Brass Ear Horn to aid the deaf.

Item#: MET1147

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A 19th Century Brass Ear Horn to aid the deaf. - click to enlarge.

Brass Ear Trumpet Hearing Aid. The ear trumpet consists of a cylinder 8 cm long, an external L shaped brass-hearing tube is inserted inside the cylinder into an inverted funnel that flares out facing into the cylinder. This type of acoustic arrangement strongly resonates in the speech frequency.