"Put a plug in it"

[Kent Swafford]

Follow the link for

ER-6 Isolator™ Earphones

at

http://www.etymotic.com/

The sound isolation allows listening at lower sound levels.

Very good design.

The site also has musician's ear plugs.

Kent Swafford




On Sunday, August 17, 2003, at 03:51  AM, Stephen Airy wrote:

> interesting... I'm only 22 and am having to sometimes concentrate on 
> some
> of the higher notes...   I probably need to find a good set of 
> musician's
> earplugs.  (Also, I listen a lot to headphones, and right now am using 
> a
> cheap over-the-ear pair, and I like to have the volume such that it's >
> 50db louder than outside sounds.  Since my headphones don't block 
> outside
> sounds without turning the volume up, I'm probably not doing very good
> things for my hearing, especially listening to them a few hours a day 
> or
> so.  I should probably find a pair of headphones that seal around my 
> ears
> and block outside sounds out by way of the physical design of the 
> phones,
> not by way of the volume coming through the headphones competing with
> outside sounds.  Anyone know of any good pairs or where to find out 
> what
> to get for < $125-200 that has a wide frequency response that would 
> allow
> me to clearly hear the high sizzles on cymbals down to the bottom C on 
> a
> Bosendorfer or an organ?  (As far as sensitivity goes (i.e. how much it
> takes to drive the headphones), I would prefer enough so that with
> battery powered portables when I have the volume almost maxed, the 
> volume
> would be comfortable without being too loud (probably no more than
> 75-80db or so), and the headphones block outside sounds well.  (maybe
> even the type of headphones that I could use as hearing protection when
> they're not being used for their originally designed purpose)
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Avery Todd" <avery@ev1.net>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 17:20:36 -0500
> Subject: Re: "Put a plug in it"
>
> Don,
>
> Thanks for the link. Has anyone ever measured the db levels in a
> practice room with a pianist playing Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, etc.?
>
> I'm pushing for carpet in the piano major practice rooms and just
> wanted some "ammunition"! :-)
>
> Avery
>
> At 11:08 AM 08/16/03 +0000, you wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here is a nice web site about hearing and musicians.
>>
>> http://www.music-injury.com/html/hearing.html
>>
>> At 08:43 AM 8/16/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>>>             Bob Hull
>>>
>>> <> wrote:
>>> I did some sound level measurements on several pianos in my shop this
>>> week. The DB meter was held at about the distance my ear would be 
>>> from
>>> the strings and soundboard. Using solid rather strong blows I 
>>> measured
>>> sound levels well over 100 dbs on both grands and uprights.
>>>
>>> What started this was the testing trick with the fingers that someone
>>> mentioned a few weeks ago. For the last year I've had problems 
>>> setting
>>> the unisons on G7. Having to turn my head to focus and hear them. 
>>> Turns
>>> out I've got quite a bit of hearing loss at that frequency and 
>>> above, in
>>> my left ear. Turning my head allowed me to compensate for it with the
>>> better right ear. At 67 years old, I'm not too surprised at the loss 
>>> in
>>> my left ear. However I'm sure that it's come on quite quickly. 
>>> Several
>>> hours a day pounding out tunings has made it worse. As a result I'm 
>>> not
>>> ! only  carrying ear plugs, I'm using them. I tell the customer they 
>>> help
>>> to filter out noise that I don't need to hear. I do take them out of 
>>> my
>>> ears when I reach the last octave, for the unisons there. There 
>>> seems to
>>> be a difference in the brightness of the sound when taking the plugs 
>>> out
>>> at that time. I'm sure it's a result of not having the previous 45 
>>> mins
>>> to 1 hr of 100 db plus sound levels thumping on my eardrums.
>>>
>>> I thought you might like to know about the 100 db plus levels...
>>> Regards to all. Rich
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>> Regards,
>> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
>>
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