[pianotech] hearing test

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

David Ilvedson wrote:
> 
> What?
>  
> David Ilvedson, RPT
> Pacifica, CA 94044
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Original message
> From: tom  
> To:  
> Received: 1/9/2009 8:57:53 AM
> Subject: [pianotech] hearing test
> 
> List,
> 
> While at my local bid chain drug store today, they had a Beltone  
> hearing center booth set up.
> 
> I took a ten minute audiogram screening  (as opposed to the 90 minute 
> test) and had happy results.
> 
> They screen between 250Hz and 6K Hz and I could hear the tones as low as 
> 5db to 15 db .
> 
> The technician said my age adjusted target (55) is to hear all tones at 
> or below 20db.
> 
> I think I’ll schedule a full test with a real audiologist instead of a 
> hearing aid salesperson at my next physical to get a baseline.
> 
> Any of my compadres on list had a like test?  
> 
> Tom Driscoll
> 


If you're talking the Beltone test, no.
Different tests at conventions, yes.
Full audiograms in conjunction with Musicians Plugs fittings, yes. With 
retest after fitting to confirm fit and efficacy.

You have more than three octaves of piano range below 250Hz, and you 
_DO_ use aural bass checks in that range, so, as you are planning, get 
the full thing.


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