Edison, who was hard of hearing, bit into phonographs and pianos to help him better experience music. Or in his own words, it allowed him to 'hear through my teeth.'
Thomas Edison, the great inventor, would lean in close to the instrument, right above the keys and bite the piano.Hard of hearing, Thomas Edison found a unique way to appreciate piano music. As someone played, the great inventor would lean in close to the instrument, right above the keys, and he'd bite the piano.
& Sons in 1890 for $725. Paperwork with the sale includes the handwritten notation "office furniture," indicating it was sent to his lab in New Jersey. The piano "for some reason unknown to me it gives better results than any so far tried," Edison wrote the company. "Please send bill with lowest price."
The formulation is simple for Friedman: Those are tooth marks, and who else would have bit the piano? His friend Charles Frommer, a musician and recording history enthusiast, came to Friedman's house in New York's Hudson Valley to tune the piano, noticed the indentations and told him "those are Edison's bite marks."
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