Wow that is touching and something we should hold on too-our humanity. On a personal level it's comforting that if I lose all my hearing I may be able to feel my way to play. I've always suspected that I've been playing from vibrations for quite awhile naturally-like lip reading, but I keep dismissing it. I sometimes wake up my wife late in the night-"Hey did you hear that?" She responds and then I say" I can't hear you without my hearing aids" and then she whimsically looks at me. I'll feel another thump or rumble and say "you didn't hear that?" which now she is awake and will say that's the train, ice maker, etc. and how can you hear that when I barely can? I think I feel it. Weird.