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Most of the teachers discouraged her but percussionist Ron Forbes
spotted her potential.

percussionist: a person who plays the drum, the tabla, etc, a person who
play different musical instruments

potential: quality or ability that can be developed

Now on one hand Evelyn‟s teachers discouraged her because they knew
that she could not hear and hearing was an important part of music. But
Ron Forbes saw that Evelyn was very passionate about music and so he
decided something.

Hebegan by tuning two large drums to different notes.

Ron Forbes thought that he would teach Evelyn to feel music. He took two
large drums and he tuned them to different notes. Drums are musical
instruments and he tuned them. He tuned each drum to different notes. So,