MY ETD IS MADE BY SIEMENS-- IT'S CALLED A HEARING AID

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

At 23:09 3/18/2006, you wrote:
>Hi John and other ear plug users,
>I don' t use ear plugs, but to be honest, I've never heard of a 
>piano tech using them until I met  you guys.  How can one hear when 
>their ears are plugged?  I remember having a bad cold and all I 
>could hear was the inside of my head, or what I thought was the 
>inside of my head.  If I were to stick m finger in my ear, it would 
>block a lot of sound.  So how do ear plugs benefit us?
>Marshall


BTW, MARSHALL!!!  & Ron Boyd...

PLEASE EDIT YOUR REPLYS SO A 1k MESSAGE DOESN'T SHOW UP AS 
25k/50k!!!!! Some of us are on slow dial-ups... grrrrrrrr ;-{
We don't need to re-read the entire thread every time.
Stepping back down...

Back on point, O.S.H.A. tells us that prolonged exposure to sound 
pressure levels over 90dB is injurious and will cause long-term 
(read: PERMANENT!) hearing loss.

Years ago I took some dB readings in different rooms and on different 
types of instruments and found that my tuning was easily over 
90dB.  In fact, peaking over 100dB was no problem.  Before someone 
says something about my pounding too hard whilst tuning, I might 
point out that I clocked some students practicing at +90bD levels.

>>So how do ear plugs benefit us?
>>Marshall

Simply put, they protect your hearing and lessen the possibility of 
you becoming a Siemens customer.



Conrad Hoffsommer
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