Hearing Loss and Piano Tuning

[Avery]

And I can't even "imagine" the decibel level in practice rooms! For hours!

Avery

At 12:53 PM 5/5/2006, you wrote:



>>From: "Robert Finley" <rfinley at rcn.com>
>
>>I have been wondering whether musicians could also suffer hearing 
>>loss and what the difference is >between tuning a piano (where the 
>>notes are played loudly to set the strings) and playing  music 
>>t>hat has loud passages in it such as a Liszt's Transcendental 
>>Etude 'Mazeppa" or Rachmaninoff's >Prelude in G minor Opus 23  and 
>>practising pieces like that for several hours a day.
>
>
>
>According to one study:
>
>90% of musicians exhibit the initial stages of a hearing loss.
>52% of classical musicians have a permanent hearing loss
>30% of rock/pop musicians also possess an irreversible hearing loss
>
>
>The official theory as to why classical musicians tend to suffer 
>from hearing loss more than rock musicians is amount of exposure; 
>rock musicians tend to listen on weekends and classical musicians 
>practice, teach and have rehersals throughout the week.  ( The IPods 
>will probably change all that.)
>
>
>
>Savy orchestras are starting to wear earplugs!
>
>Diane
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