"tonoscope" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "tono- + -scope, coined by Dr. Hans Jenny, who invented the first such device and published research that was based on it.",
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          "ref": "2010, Naomi Ozaniec, Beat Stress With Meditation: Teach Yourself",
          "text": "When the tonoscope was used with patients suffering from speech difficulties, the difference between a pure sound and a skewed sound was clearly evident.",
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          "ref": "2014, Brenton J. Malin, Feeling Mediated: A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America",
          "text": "Seashore saw the emotions of music as buried in the subsensory rise and fall of the sound wave; only tools such as the tonoscope could capture music's true beauty.",
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          "ref": "2016, J. Douglas Kenyon, Unseen Forces: A Guide for the Truly Attentive",
          "text": "Although a deaf child might not be able to hear the difference between a properly pronounced “oh” and a guttural, poorly articulated “uhh,” using the tonoscope they could see the difference!",
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        "Any of various devices that make sound visible by displaying vibrations."
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