In this manner the signals are read by ear.
The system of music is elaborate but is not written, vocalists and instrumentalists performing entirely by ear.
Unlike her, I play by ear and that organ gets a little forgetful at times.
Although he played totally by ear he had learned a dabbling of theory from his wife's uncle who was a steel guitar player.
The wonderful overture is more highly organized and less unequal than that of Tannhduser; and although Wagner uses less L eit-motif than Weber (see Opera, ad fin.) and divides the piece into " numbers " of classical size, the effect is so continuous that the divisions could hardly be guessed by ear.
