Most people thought the music stopped when the hearing loss started. Evelyn Glennie began losing her hearing at age eight, and by the time she was twelve, she was deeply deaf. Doctors and teachers expected her to give up her instruments and focus on lip-reading. She refused to accept that silence meant the end of her music. Instead of listening with her ears, she learned to listen with her limbs. She discovered she could feel the pitch of a note by where it vibrated on her body—low sounds in her