<html 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" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"/>  <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> I will be away from the computer for the next several days so if<o:p></o:p> anyone writes about this and I don’t respond I’m not ignoring you.<o:p></o:p> I’m vacating!!!!!  Going to see the southern family and eat fresh peach cobbler.<o:p></o:p> Ruth Phillips<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From: Ruth Phillips [mailto:<st1:PersonName w:st="on">info@alliedpiano.com</st1:PersonName>] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 7:11 PM To: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">'pianotech@ptg.org'</st1:PersonName> Subject: more buzzing<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> <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> </body> </html>