ETD to the Rescue for Hearing Impaired?

[Will Truitt]

And we lie to our senses.

Will Truitt

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Ron Nossaman
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 11:50 PM
To: l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net; Pianotech List
Subject: Re: ETD to the Rescue for Hearing Impaired?

Leslie Bartlett wrote:
> I tuned for Avery Todd at UH for several years, and he always complained 
> that my highs and lows were always too low. I thought he was just too 
> critical.  But when I got my hearing aids, I found I had lost a whole 
> world and didn't know it. If one has lost even a relatively modest part 
> of hearing, everything about sound changes, and no matter what a danged 
> machine says, the ears are going to hear what they hear. I found out the 
> hard way.  I think all tuners over the age of 40 should have their 
> hearing checked annually, but the probably seems unreasonable. But we're 
> in the hearing business, and if ours is impaired we simply cannot do 
> justice to ourselves and our customers.
> les bartlett

You're absolutely right. Our reality is very much defined by 
our senses, and our senses do lie to us.
Ron N