Musical Hallucinations in Deafness Revisited

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To the Editor.— Since our publication "Musical Hallucinations in Deafness" (231:620, 1975), we have received 12 spontaneous letters from patients and physicians describing their musical hallucinations occurring with deafness. For the most part, the letters corroborated our clinical description of the musical hallucinations and further delineated the natural history of the disorder. Three patients experienced their musical hallucinations for more than two decades and two others for "many years." The affliction, therefore, appears to be permanent, although one person reported that her hallucinations had ceased for three years, only to recur. One woman related the following phenomenon: "Did any of your patients say that changes in barometric pressure made these auditory hallucinations worse? Our children used to consider me quite a weather prophet and would often check out their plans for outdoor play by asking if I had a lot of head noises, which often as not meant rain!" Practically

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