<!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 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Diane</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've made a copy of your letter to show = to my wife. I've been trying to get this across to her for some time but she thinks = I'm not listening or paying attention (that may be true some of the time). Oddly = enough her work includes some geriatric care. She has mentioned how some of the = elderly cannot hear her voice very well because of its pitch and = softness.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for your = contributions.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Paul Chick</FONT></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> Saturday, September 22, = 2001 3:16 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Hearing Loss</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <P>Anthony said:</P> <P>>I was fairly unhappy and worried about what he said; and didn't = want >news of my condition to get around my community of technicians; = >who was going to hire a deaf piano technician? > </P> <P>You brought up a very important issue here, one that needs to be = brought to everyone's attention.  Virtually everyone who lives a nice long = life will lose hearing. In 1995, one in three people over the age of = 65 had hearing loss that causes them communication problems (that's <U>down = in the 2,000hz to 3,000hz range</U>).  And with the baby boomer = generation, the age at which hearing loss is becoming acute is getting drastically = lower, it's not uncommon now for audiologists to see people in their 40's coming = in with hearing loss.   </P></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>