Dear Colleagues, Hans Troost, just home from holidays in France and without a working computer, asked me to send this to you: >Greetings, Hans >P.S. >Maybe you could mention or post following message to our fellow >pianotechnicians...: >- too high exposure to sound will in the long run damage your ears. Apart >from hearing impearment (roughly 50%) various other hearingdisorders can >devellop during the years. Mostly occuring around in > one's 40's. >These other disorders (also roughly 50%) are tinnitus, hyperacusis, loss of >stereo perception, distortion, diplacusis (is rare, hearing one tone in >different pitch in left and right ears), and several others (even more >rare..) - prevention is the way, when harm is done to the ears in most >cases nothing can be done. To learn to live with it is what remains. Often >resulting in having to change your occupation into no-sound- work... >- One should be carefull when tuning ''hard'', especially when working full >weeks and/or having noisy work, hobby or recreation apart from tuning, like >making music. This 'extra' sound exposure also includes long cardrives >especially with windows open. - tuning ''hard'' is on the edge of what is >''officially'' safe according to industry norms, allthough nobody > knows >what the effect is of the high peaks going up around 110 dB while tuning a >piano... >- tuning ''soft'' takes some time to learn. Don't give up...! It feels like >learning to tune from the start again and will take extra time in the >beginning to complete a tuning (make a little less money for a while and >save your ears in the end...) - tuning ''soft'' gives the same stable >tuning result as tuning ''hard''. The quality of the piano and the > skill >of the tuner is what makes the difference... not ''soft'' or ''hard'' >tuning. . - I will be working on suggestions on ''soft tuning'' soon. In >dutch and english. >- I will translate the Dutch research done by Wim Soede (Leiden University, >dep. of Audiology) and > myself as soon as the definite version is >available. >- Information on tinnitus and hyperacusis and how to deal with it (among >other things), through my website www.troostmuziek.nl , look for the >english text: English Summary. >- For more detailed information on tinnitus and hyperacusis, download >papers from following websites: > www.hyperacusis.net and www.tinnitus.org >- and please do contact mail or email me when you are having questions. >Take care, >Hans Troost >Ereprijsstraat 98 3765 AM Soest >The Netherlands >tel. +31-(0)35-5880801 >hanstroost@zonnet.nl >www.troostmuziek.nl Diane Hofstetter PS: I don't means to shout, I just can't figure out how to get MSN to send my name in upper and lower case letters--still trying. _________________________________________________________________ Get MSN 8 and enjoy automatic e-mail virus protection. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
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