My eardrums will burst!

You'll break my eardrums.

My eardrums are gonna pop!

But in the meantime he's breaking everybody's eardrums.

You want to keep your mouth open, so your eardrums don't burst from the pressures.

Mussolini's telling me how to play. Busting my eardrums with his noise! Let's not be cruel.

In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums.