<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:v = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1 = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16481" name=GENERATOR><o:SmartTagType name="State" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:SmartTagType><o:SmartTagType name="City" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:SmartTagType><o:SmartTagType name="place" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:SmartTagType><o:SmartTagType name="PersonName" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></o:SmartTagType> <STYLE>  </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY lang=EN-US vLink=purple link=blue> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>Certainly less than two years!  I know from experience.....</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>les bartlett</DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ruth Phillips Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 6:11 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: more buzzing </DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=Section1> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Paul</st1:PersonName> and Les,<o:p></o:p> Interesting.  Your explanation makes sense.  The ear doctor said he’d never heard of ear plugs being used the way I think I need.  For me, it’s just this buzzing, as if a whole box of screws were on the board, and only coming through in one ear.  There isn’t a pitch to it like ringing has.  Diane told me that hearing aid technology is changing so fast that one just a few months to a couple of years old can be obsolete.<o:p></o:p> Ruth Phillips<o:p></o:p> <A href="mailto:info@alliedpiano.com">info@alliedpiano.com</A><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> >To the best of my knowledge, noise-canceling is accomplished by a microphone listening to ambient noise, and a wave generator creating an exact opposite noise...  In order to generate an opposite noise, there would have to be an actual, physical noise against which to generate a canceling noise.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Paul</st1:PersonName> Bruesch<o:p></o:p> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Stillwater</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">MN</st1:State></st1:place><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> On 7/5/07, Leslie Bartlett <l-bartlett@sbcglobal.net> wrote:<o:p></o:p> ><o:p> </o:p> >  I wonder if the hearing geeks have managed to create some noise <o:p></o:p> > cancelling technology which could be applied to the offending pitches <o:p></o:p> > of the ringing.  I have some of it, but only really notice it when I <o:p></o:p> > have hearing aids *out* and attend to it.  <o:p></o:p> > les <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">bartlett</st1:City></st1:place><o:p></o:p> ><o:p> </o:p> >  ------------------------------<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> > I wrote a couple of months ago about a new buzz in my ear<o:p></o:p> ><o:p> </o:p> > and got a lot of good suggestions.  <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> >Ruth Phillips<o:p></o:p></DIV> No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.0/886 - Release Date: 07/04/2007 1:40 PM </BODY></HTML>