You can Hear Through Your Bones (ILL PROVE IT) Sound production involves vibrations traveling through the air as sound waves, which are picked up by the ear. Bone conduction, on the other hand, bypasses the outer ear and directly transmits vibrations through the skull bones to the inner ear, allowing you to hear. Beethoven, who was deaf, used bone conduction by biting a rod attached to his piano, feeling the vibrations through his jawbone. FoodThreads