Hearing

[Leslie Bartlett]

Actually the consonants are in the 3-4000 hz range, or so says my
audiologist and a speech therapist friend, and so they are well within the
top octave.  I know because I'm using hearing aids and my tuning confidence
has risen significantly.  Occasionally I even think I hit a tuning fairly
closely..........
les bartlett
houston 

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Conrad Hoffsommer
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 7:03 AM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: Hearing

G'day  David,

>----- Original Message -----
>
>The other matter that could be of interest is the that quite strange 
>peculiarity of being able to hear your tuning very well, however when 
>in a noisy room, can't hear what people are saying to you.
>Am I the only one who has this experience? I bet I'm not.
>Love this facility, it is great.
>Regards,
>David Lawson    Wangaratta Australia
>
>At 12:25 PM 6/9/2006 +0100, you wrote:
>>Otherwise known as cocktail party syndrome and you are not the only one.
>>AF


Besides being washed over by a wall of white noise sound in the room, the
inability to hear parts of conversation is one of the first indications of
high frequency hearing loss, just like you probably can no longer hear that
high pitched sound that most TV sets emit.

Differentiating between "s" and "z", "t" and "d", "f" and "v", etc. becomes
more difficult as high freq hearing loss progresses.

Fortunately, the frequencies involved are too far above the piano range to
affect tuning.

So, you _can_ be a deaf piano tuner... ;-}}}






Conrad Hoffsommer

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