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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Hi Diane,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Well....they seemed pretty consistant to me as I counted
to four. I heard some kind of weird beats in a couple of them. My
computer connection is broad band and I have good speakers. Perhaps that's
the difference.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Barbara Richmond, RPT</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>near Peoria, Illinois</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=dianepianotuner@msn.com href="mailto:dianepianotuner@msn.com">Diane
Hofstetter</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 24, 2007 8:06
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Strange Hearing Test?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>On a hard of hearing chat list that I am subscribed to, someone
today recommended that non-audiologists can get an idea of where they
have cochlear dead zones by playing the "keys" on this software: <A
href="http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/appendix/pitch/pitch.html">http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/appendix/pitch/pitch.html</A> and
listening for: 1. how long the sound sustains, 2. whether the pitch seems to
rise when you go up the keyboard and 3. whether the sound is
"clunky".<BR> <BR>It seems to me to be a flawed test because the tones
are not uniform to begin with--unless I have cochlear dead zones!
<BR> <BR>To my hearing the tones are 4 seconds in length (the chatlister
said 2 seconds--I think that proves my slow computer, not my good
hearing), most of the tones have beats of various speeds, and the
harmonic content is not consistent. Just some examples of the latter
include: B3 vs C4; G vs G#4; B5 vs. C6 and C#7 vs D7. (The octave
numbers are the ones we are used to using as pianotechs, not those given in
the program.)<BR> <BR>Now, can anyone tell me whether the examples I
gave are the same as each other and I have cochlear dead zones? And what
would you advise these hard of hearing folk about the usefulness of this
program for testing hearing?<BR> <BR>Thanks!<BR>Diane<BR><BR>Diane
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