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In Reply to: RE: orchestral musician will lose at least 20% of their hearing over the course of their career, as do we all posted by Kloss on August 11, 2012 at 11:53:01
Sit in front of the trumpets for a while and your top end is sliced off etc. I have met a number of orchestral musicians that aknowledge their hearing loss as a price for what they do but, at the seattle symphony, they still have put up sound shields in front of the trumpets in the past due to complaints.
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I hated those sound shields. As a trumpet player I was always hearing the sound bounce back from various points in the hall during rehearsals, it gives you an idea as to how loud to play during fortissimo passages. When the hall was filled with people during concerts, you would have an idea as to how hard to really play, the filled hall would be a lot less "live" but the sound would still carry over the top of a full orchestra playing fortissimo. With the sound shields in place, I had to play that much louder to hear any sound "bounce back", which sort of defeated the purpose of those sound shields, unfortunately.
I have had my share of dirty looks from string players, sorry...
TR
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