Singing Without Sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFxu0QdwX_8

To show to the singers who always need more volume...

JS

I've seen here in a video before, one of her "secrets" is the high-speed tuning app shown at 2:20. The other video said she uses that to stay on pitch. I could imagine she could sing semi-reasonably without it, but not dead-on pitch like she's doing.

I just saw this - unbelievable!

I have a hard time believing she is totally deaf - how could you even begin to sing in the right key if you don't hear the starting note. I know she said she was born with "near perfect pitch" but that's a far cry from being able to produce a sound without hearing it. She must have SOME hearing?

Incredible.

Phrazemaster said:

..... She must have SOME hearing?

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No.

Google Evelyn Glennie.  She is completely deaf.

sahib said:

No.

Google Evelyn Glennie.  She is completely deaf.

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How is it even remotely possible she could be singing in tune then? She would need the starting note even if she could sing in-tune.

I know she said she used to have perfect pitch - and she uses "muscle memory" to sing now. But that doesn't make sense - we lose our muscle memory for things we learn after a period of time.

Unbelievable.

> She is completely deaf.

She is profoundly deaf.

That does NOT mean zero hearing-action in the ears. Just very-very-very little. Often considered >80dB of loss (compared to some ideal young adult).

But as she writes, we hear not only with our ears. So-called normal people hear most sounds much better in ear than anywhere else, but she describes other ways to "hear" without good ears.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110410092415/http://www.evelyn.co.uk/Evelyn_old/live/hearing_essay.htm