Follow the link for ER-6 Isolator™ Earphones at http://www.etymotic.com/ The sound isolation allows listening at lower sound levels. Very good design. The site also has musician's ear plugs. Kent Swafford On Sunday, August 17, 2003, at 03:51 AM, Stephen Airy wrote: > interesting... I'm only 22 and am having to sometimes concentrate on > some > of the higher notes... I probably need to find a good set of > musician's > earplugs. (Also, I listen a lot to headphones, and right now am using > a > cheap over-the-ear pair, and I like to have the volume such that it's > > 50db louder than outside sounds. Since my headphones don't block > outside > sounds without turning the volume up, I'm probably not doing very good > things for my hearing, especially listening to them a few hours a day > or > so. I should probably find a pair of headphones that seal around my > ears > and block outside sounds out by way of the physical design of the > phones, > not by way of the volume coming through the headphones competing with > outside sounds. Anyone know of any good pairs or where to find out > what > to get for < $125-200 that has a wide frequency response that would > allow > me to clearly hear the high sizzles on cymbals down to the bottom C on > a > Bosendorfer or an organ? (As far as sensitivity goes (i.e. how much it > takes to drive the headphones), I would prefer enough so that with > battery powered portables when I have the volume almost maxed, the > volume > would be comfortable without being too loud (probably no more than > 75-80db or so), and the headphones block outside sounds well. (maybe > even the type of headphones that I could use as hearing protection when > they're not being used for their originally designed purpose) > > ----- Original message ----- > From: "Avery Todd" <avery@ev1.net> > To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> > Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 17:20:36 -0500 > Subject: Re: "Put a plug in it" > > Don, > > Thanks for the link. Has anyone ever measured the db levels in a > practice room with a pianist playing Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, etc.? > > I'm pushing for carpet in the piano major practice rooms and just > wanted some "ammunition"! :-) > > Avery > > At 11:08 AM 08/16/03 +0000, you wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Here is a nice web site about hearing and musicians. >> >> http://www.music-injury.com/html/hearing.html >> >> At 08:43 AM 8/16/2003 -0700, you wrote: >>> Bob Hull >>> >>> <> wrote: >>> I did some sound level measurements on several pianos in my shop this >>> week. The DB meter was held at about the distance my ear would be >>> from >>> the strings and soundboard. Using solid rather strong blows I >>> measured >>> sound levels well over 100 dbs on both grands and uprights. >>> >>> What started this was the testing trick with the fingers that someone >>> mentioned a few weeks ago. For the last year I've had problems >>> setting >>> the unisons on G7. Having to turn my head to focus and hear them. >>> Turns >>> out I've got quite a bit of hearing loss at that frequency and >>> above, in >>> my left ear. Turning my head allowed me to compensate for it with the >>> better right ear. At 67 years old, I'm not too surprised at the loss >>> in >>> my left ear. However I'm sure that it's come on quite quickly. >>> Several >>> hours a day pounding out tunings has made it worse. As a result I'm >>> not >>> ! only carrying ear plugs, I'm using them. I tell the customer they >>> help >>> to filter out noise that I don't need to hear. I do take them out of >>> my >>> ears when I reach the last octave, for the unisons there. There >>> seems to >>> be a difference in the brightness of the sound when taking the plugs >>> out >>> at that time. I'm sure it's a result of not having the previous 45 >>> mins >>> to 1 hr of 100 db plus sound levels thumping on my eardrums. >>> >>> I thought you might like to know about the 100 db plus levels... >>> Regards to all. Rich >>> _______________________________________________ >>> pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >>> Do you Yahoo!? >>> Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software >> >> Regards, >> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T. >> >> mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca >> http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ >> >> 3004 Grant Rd. >> REGINA, SK >> S4S 5G7 >> 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner >> _______________________________________________ >> pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > -- > Stephen Airy > stephenairy@fastmail.fm > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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