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Music Vibes — Piano app for the deaf - feel the vibrations!

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Music Vibes is a piano playing app with a difference – you can feel the music you make with vibrations! With Haptic vibration technology, you can literally feel the frequencies of a melody with changes in vibration. Music can even be felt by some deaf people!
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Craig Grummitt
Hello Product Hunt, and thanks for checking out Music Vibes. I'm excited about this app - could I tell you a short story that inspired me to build it? So when Beethoven (yes that's right, the 19th century composer!) lost his hearing, and was faced with losing his true passion - composing music - he made the amazing discovery that if he clenched a rod between his teeth and held it to the soundboard of the piano, he could actually feel the vibrations through his teeth - as music! Today this concept has a name - "bone conduction" - and when you experiment with Music Vibes you'll be discovering this phenomenon for yourself! Play and record a song, or load up a preset melody, TURN OFF audio, TURN ON vibrations, and push your phone up against your chin / jaw / cheek - you will actually find that even though these vibrations are bypassing your eardrum, your inner ear can receive these vibrations through bone conduction, and still perceive them as music! Just like Beethoven, some deaf people with problems with their middle or outer ear can actually perceive sound using this technique! Download the app, check out Moonlight Sonata - and experience it as Beethoven did over 200 years ago! Special offer for Product Hunt: If you hit the "Load Melodies" button, you'll find several melodies you can load for free - but you'll also find a pack of 15 Christmas classic melodies that you can access as an In-App purchase. As a special offer for Product Hunt, this Christmas pack is FREE to activate until Friday of this week. Enjoy!