<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.3105.105" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:dianepianotuner@hotmail.com" title=dianepianotuner@hotmail.com>Diane Hofstetter</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" title=pianotech@ptg.org>pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, September 19, = 2001 2:29 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Noise Levels [was = Re: Yamaha "S" Pianos vs. others]</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV> <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> I agree with a lot of the people on the list = responding to this thread. <DIV></DIV>>I think that as we age, we will find that we have = become the most deaf <DIV></DIV>>generation to have ever lived. <DIV></DIV>> Good thing they're coming out with all those high-tech = hearing aids, eh? <DIV></DIV>> <DIV></DIV>> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Problem is that hearing aids don't work as well as eye  glasses.  They can amplify the sound, that is true, but if you = have nerve damage (and those tiny hairs that get damaged by noise are nerve = ends), the hearing aids can't straighten out the garbled messages.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Diane,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Could you speak a little louder...what did you = say...."the speeding trains can't straighten out in barbed wire = meshes?"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Tom Servinsky,RPT</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Diane</DIV></DIV><BR clear=all> <HR> Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at <A = href="http://go.msn.com/bql/hmtag_itl_EN.asp">http://explorer.msn.com</= A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>