Ear Trumpets...

[sandyRoe]

Have they gone totally out of fashion?

[Sqad]

I can't remember them being in fashion...........

[rockyracoon]

I need one of them at the moment ;)

[sandyRoe]

I saw a photograph of the writer, Evelyn Waugh, with one. When he'd had enough of listening to someone he'd deliberately take it out of his ear.

[Baldric]

Sorry, did someone speak?

[RATTER15]

Pardon!

[joggerjayne]

Anyone with an ear trumpet needs to be called Great Aunt (something) and live in an old house in the Home Counties.

[sandyRoe]

http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/resources/images/2461261.jpg?type=articlePortrait

[sandyRoe]

I don't know. I think they're a delightful affectation :-)

[Prudie]

They ran off with monocles on a penny farthing

[stewey]

They have, long ago, been replaced by the ear drum.

[Baldric]

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/resources/images/2461261.jpg%3Ftype%3DarticlePortrait&imgrefurl=http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/gray_matter/10435945.Jenny_finds_a_backer_in_an_arbiter_earl/&h=360&w=288&sz=18&tbnid=2YQ2fCOZLFfhNM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=72&zoom=1&usg=__BErBRQgCFfKLgL7GR0Kc5lxWpAI=&;docid=V85cHGzlLwlJPM&sa=X&ei=0z1xUtSzFIOq7QaN8oCwAw&ved=0CEcQ9QEwBA

[stewey]

Ear drums, actually.

[wolf63]

I can happily say that I have never seen one.

My dad used to moan that his hearing aid was useless. I am not surprised as it lived on the coffee table.

[Khandro]

I was told by a consultant that simply cupping your hand behind your ear increases the sound by 30 decibels, you could also try making a cone out of a rolled-up newspaper and test that, but I think on the whole Sandy, you'd be better off with a hearing aid! :-)

[craft1948]

I think monocles are cool..............

[sandyRoe]

I'll get one in due course.

[cupid04]

yes along with spittoons!

[sandyRoe]

^ Not a monocle, a hearing aid. ^

[marval]

I will stick to my hearing aids, much easier.