ear trumpet

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Among the other treasures jostling for space inside her living room were a taxidermied two-headed chick, a tchotchke of conjoined twins, an ear trumpet from the eighteen-hundreds, and a ventriloquist’s dummy.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2018

GPs tend to be confident that, within a few months, the middle ear clears, and hearing returns; and, where Beethoven had a primitive ear trumpet, audiologists can now offer sophisticated hearing aids.

From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2010

"He wants to extend his contract with us and stay with us, so the noise coming out of Russia is very difficult to explain," he said, adjusting his gigantic mahogany ear trumpet.

From The Guardian • Apr. 30, 2010

Visiting with his ancient Aunt Janie, a "grim old Presbyterian" almost stone deaf, Wilson twice bellowed into her ear trumpet: "I've just been elected President."

From Time Magazine Archive

Even his bicycle has been saved, and the tin ear trumpet, nearly two feet long, which poor deaf Konstantin used to hold up to his ear for his students to speak into.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins