Conrad Hoffsommer wrote: >Back in January there was (I started) a thread on hearing loss and >ear plug tuning, etc. Recently, a similar thread has appeared on >the pipe organ list (piporg-l@uacsc2.albany.edu). I would like >to pass on to this list a Web site which contains all you ever >wanted to know about tinnitus. > > http://music1.uoregon.edu/musres.html > >-Hear's lis'nen to ya.- Hope I'm not beating a dead horse, but I wasn't around for the thread in January, and wanted to put in my 2cents. I've been using the custom musician's earplugs for about 9 months now, and swear by them! I no longer have to fight ear fatigue during the last tunings of the day, and find that I can actually concentrate and isolate harmonics better with the plugs, since they block out a lot of those annoying little backround noises. As someone who spends time tuning big grands in small practice rooms, the plugs now seem almost indispensable to me. I originally got the plugs after noticing that the slight tinnitus I've had in one ear (from back in my rock & roll days I'm afraid..) was starting to get worse. Since I've used the plugs, the tinnitus actually seems to have almost dissapeared. Please, please take care of those ears folks, we all have followed not so old techs who have lost the ability to hear the top octave. I plan to be doing high quality work when I'm 80. John McKone
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