This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment As I recall a couple of days. Mine was not a headache, rather, an acute sensitivity to the overtones of the strings. It almost made me wince and I thought at first it was a help to have my hearing that acute, but decided it was not in my best interest to keep doing what caused the problem. My dad, who was a self-taught musician and singer-quite good in his teens through thirties, by the way-worked in a machine shop where they worked on the old steam locomotives in the 30s and 40s. He lost his hearing by the time he was in his early 40s to the point where he could not match pitches. I am blessed to be 57 and still have acute hearing (I tune aurally), but I have protected my hearing since my late 20s by wearing over-the-ear and in-the-ear hearing protection when I use power tools, lawn mower, chain saw, string trimmer (the latter two are killers on our hearing) and even my tractor. I've even worn them during some of the Branson, MO. Shows-they are loud too! =20 I've often quipped that the best long-term financial investment we could make is to invest in hearing aid companies. With the reinforced sound, and I mean reinforced(!), that our youth and 20-somethings are exposed to, as well as radios, ipods, etc., they will suffer severe nerve damage in the next 20 years. Sad to say, the above would be a good investment! Joy! Elwood =20 Elwood Doss, Jr., RPT Piano Technician/Technical Director Department of Music 145 Fine Arts Building The University of Tennessee at Martin Martin, TN 38238 731/881-1852 FAX: 731/881-7415 HOME: 731/587-5700 _____ =20 From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Tanner Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 11:44 AM To: College and University Technicians Subject: Re: [CAUT] Hearing Protection =20 =20 On Oct 28, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Elwood Doss wrote: I laid off caffeinated coffee and went to decaffeinated coffee and the problem went away. =20 =20 How long before the headaches went away? :-) Jeff ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/97/97/9a/4b/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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