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as a way to divert a baby's attention; some patients were given an instrument to learn as a rehabilitation strategy. She encouraged music therapists to dress in light colors and sing specific songs for specific illnesses. She was also interested in the benefit of surgeons listening to music in operating rooms. She is considered a pioneer in field of the music therapy.
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Armstrong was married three times. Her first husband was Alfred Dwight
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in 1915, giving lectures on the psychological aspects of music, and Edison's inventions to bring those benefits to a wider public. In 1916, she was chaperone to a musical prodigy, Claudia
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in the early 1920s, and lectured on the healing properties of music. In 1922, she created "a descriptive map of
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