Leslie Bartlett wrote: > I tuned for Avery Todd at UH for several years, and he always complained > that my highs and lows were always too low. I thought he was just too > critical. But when I got my hearing aids, I found I had lost a whole > world and didn't know it. If one has lost even a relatively modest part > of hearing, everything about sound changes, and no matter what a danged > machine says, the ears are going to hear what they hear. I found out the > hard way. I think all tuners over the age of 40 should have their > hearing checked annually, but the probably seems unreasonable. But we're > in the hearing business, and if ours is impaired we simply cannot do > justice to ourselves and our customers. > les bartlett You're absolutely right. Our reality is very much defined by our senses, and our senses do lie to us. Ron N
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