"Pooh Bear" wrote in message
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: Jenn wrote:
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: In article .com,
: "Andre Jute" wrote:
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: Arny Kruger Lie No. 51281:
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: professional musicians, particularly classical performers, are likely to
be
: hearing-damaged due to exposure to loud sounds
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: Prove this vicious generalization, Krueger.
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: It's clearly a false statement.
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: Hearing impairment in orchestral musicians.
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: Ostri B, Eller N, Dahlin E, Skylv G.
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: Department of Audiology, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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: Symphony orchestra musicians from The Royal Danish Theatre (15 females and 80
: males) aged 22 to 64 years were audiologically examined to elucidate the
presence
: and the frequency of noise-induced hearing loss among classical musicians.
: Compared to a reference material (ISO 7029) the median hearing thresholds of
the
: musicians were increased for all age groups. When using hearing sensitivity in
one
: or both ears less than 20 dB HL as a criterion for normality, it was found the
58%
: of the musicians had a hearing impairment. 50% of the males and 13% of the
females
: showed a typical audiogram with a notched curve at higher frequencies normally
: attributed to occupational noise exposure. Furthermore, a significantly poorer
: hearing on the left ear was found at higher frequencies among the violinists.
It
: is concluded that symphonic musicians suffer from hearing impairment and that
the
: impairment might be ascribed to symphonic music.
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: PMID: 2609103 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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:
: Graham
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It is a sad occupational hazard, that indeed the change of running into some
form of hearing problem is pretty high. From an posting of mine on RAO, feb 16th:

http://orkestengehoor.nl/achtergrond.../r816_3_ra.pdf
is a dutch report from 2003 : brass section players are on average exposed to 88
dbA SPL dayly average over a 260 day working year .

K. Kähäri (Linholmen Development, Göteborg) reported in 2003 that
only 26 % of classical orchestra performers had no hearing impairements

within the remaining 74 %:
41 % suffered diminished hearing capabilities
43 % suffered tinnitus
39 % suffered hyperacuses
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in reaction, "Bryan" wrote in message

oups.com...

I can vouch for that. I'm not a professional musician and I only play
maybe once or twice a week. But when I played in a big band in front
of the trumpet section, I actually wore earplugs sometimes because it
hurt! I do have tinnitus (ringing in the ears), but it doesn't seem to
interfere with "normal" hearing ... yet.
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Some recommendations are to put the trumpet section on a platform,
and a little further to the back - this will end up in regulations in the EU.
It appears orchestra's acoustical output has been going up by several dB
the last 20 years.

Rudy