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2014

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2017

2025

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Simple Music Player

This is a Simple Music Player. It was manufactured by E2L Products Limited. It is dated 2014. Its medium is injection-molded abs(hips), wood (mdf), electronic components.

For people with dementia, the benefits of music are significant, both for quality of life and improving cognizance and lucidity. The design is radically simplified to aid operation, appears non-threatening and recognizable. Once pre-loaded with favorite tunes or audio books, the user activates or stops it by merely lifting the lid.

It is credited Gift of The Alzheimer's Store.

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Our curators have highlighted 6 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

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Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 19.1 × 30 × 10.9 cm (7 1/2 × 11 13/16 × 4 5/16 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Access+Ability.

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