Yes, it would require some math, but I suspect you'd get superior results. For example, you can replace the "modeling" by the FFT transform applied to small time-slices (i.e., this determines which hair-cells get triggered at a given time). Now you have to stitch these slices together without introducing spurious frequencies, which is the difficult part.
Are you trolling us? The ear drum is how you hear...
I'm not sure what about that post sounded like a troll to you. It sounds like a reasonable approach, to me.
"hair cells in the ear" isn't how hearing works. That's how balance works :/