etd's and ears

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

At 08:29 AM 2/14/2007 -0600, you wrote:
>Les,
>
>You have summed up beautifully how I have felt in recent years on this topic.
>
>You said:  As the tuning public grows more and more grey, hearing 
>issues are going to become more serious, and  I can pretty much tell 
>on first pass if the tuner before has been aural, and generally know 
>if he or she is suffering from some kind of hearing limitation..   I 
>was discussion this very point with someone just the other 
>day.  Thanks for your thoughtful and honest post.
>
>Arlin

So true, and when/if the iPod generation ever gets to listening to 
live, acoustic music I wonder how much _they'll_ hear.  Just last 
week a music minister at a church i was working couldn't hear the top 
octave (i.e. above 2000Hz)...




Conrad Hoffsommer

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