Help requested from hearing aid wearers

[terryb]

Hi Diane,

I have the OTICON SYCIC2 hearing aids. They are relatively small and fit in 
the ear canal. They are capable of 4 programs and I am assuming that there 
are many changes that can be made in each program (although I have not yet 
been successful in having my audiologist make a lot of changes so far. I 
have already told you about comments that my audiologist made, so I won't 
go into that again, except to say that she is now more amenable to making 
changes to suit me.

I have a program in all 4 areas. The last one is supposed to be a music 
program. The only difference that I can ascertain is that sounds are have a 
greater volume than the other three.

I have tried tuning pianos with my hearing aids using all 4 programs. 
Unfortunately I get the same result with all of them. They are fine for 
tuning the Bass, but at about C3 things deteriorate rapidly. Sustaining any 
note from C3 on up to the top, causes feedback and squealing regardless of 
how loudly or softly the note is played. In Octave 7 the sound pulsates 
sort of like a false beat and that octave is impossible to hear while 
wearing hearing aids. The sound from C88 is pretty well non existent. (I 
can hear it without the hearing aids). My audiologist says she turned up 
the volume for frequencies above 4000 hz, but I don't think that she turned 
it up enough.

I spent the last two days with Roger Jolly as he regulated and voiced a 
5'7" Wurlitzer grand in a fairly large church. He made changes in the 
voicing and asked me what I thought. To me, I couldn't really identify the 
change and the piano still seemed to be very harsh sounding. The pianist 
loved it though, so I guess it is just my hearing.

I have another appointment coming up with my audiologist and I will try to 
have her make further changes. If you or Les have any suggestions, I am 
sure they would be helpful.

Terry Beckingham RPT

At 09:22 PM 3/12/2007 -0800, you wrote:
>I am studying hearing aids in school and trying to learn what makes for a 
>good hearing aid for piano tuning.  Can anyone who is wearing hearing aids 
>for tuning tell me either 1.  what kind of  hearing aids they have and how 
>they are programmed if they are having success with their hearing aids and 
>2.  If they are not having success, what have been some of the problems?
>
>If you can answer these for me, please send your replies to dpno2nr at yahoo.com
>
>Thank you for any help you can offer!
>Diane
>
>Diane Hofstetter
>