Evelyn hears music by sensing the vibrations and notes through different parts of her body rather than through her ears. When Ron Forbes, a percussionist, tuned two drums to different notes and asked her to feel the sound without using her ears, she discovered that she could feel the higher-pitched drum vibrations from the waist up and the lower-pitched drum vibrations from the waist down. She learned to open her mind and body to sounds and vibrations, feeling music in her skin, cheekbones, hair, and fingertips. For example, when playing the xylophone, she sensed the sound traveling up the stick into her fingertips. By leaning against drums or standing barefoot on a wooden platform, she could feel the resonances and vibrations passing through her body, allowing music to pour in through every part of her

. This method of hearing music is a result of her determination and hard work to overcome her hearing loss and experience music in a unique, tactile way