Ardente Hand-Held Church Hearing Aid Receiver The Ardente Hand-Held Church Hearing Aid Receiver was produced by Ardente Acoustic Laboratories, Ltd. in London, England somewhere around 1935. (The address on this receiver was the address Ardente used between 1922 and 1948.) To use it, you either plugged it into the back of the pew in front of you (or it was hard-wired there). The Ardente hand-held church receiver was about 9½" long, and weighed 8¾ oz. It was made of black bakelite. |  | Click picture for larger view | | |   | | | |
| Close-up of the Ardente hand-held church receiver earpiece. It was 2" in diameter and ¾" thick.
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| Rear view of the Ardente hand-held church receiver. At the top is the name "Ardente". Below it is the patent number (553391), and below that an "H" (maybe a Model H?). At the bottom was the current Ardente address at this time, namely, "309 Oxford Street, W 1". |  | Click picture for larger view | | | |
| The volume control knob was at the very bottom of the Ardente receiver handle (tapered part). From softest to loudest volume was about ¾ turn. |  | Click picture for larger view | | | |
| Side view of the Ardente hand-held church receiver. Notice the angle of the receiver to the handle. This made for very comfortable holding of this receiver. (The earpiece is facing down.) Rather than having a fixed angle for the earphone, most manufacturers used a gimbal mount so the angle would automatically adjust to however you held the handle.
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