For some reason since I had started playing drums, around age 8, Dad had some headphone type ear muffs that were used by the Air Force for the service techs on the runway. I started using them because the drums just sounded better to me and I could hear myself hum, you know, while practising playing the drums. Anyway, that habit stuck with me throughout all the years of playing/practising/concerts, etc. etc. I keep a pair around the garage for the weed blower and when I'm working on running engines. I also have a box of the foam earplugs from which I keep a few in all my vehicles and boat. My hearing is excellent, now my eyes are heading south of the border....wonder if it's from not wearing sunglasses all those years living on the beach???
Do you protect your hearing?
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Plugs plus muffs is good, fitted plugs are great. As a classical musician in the wind section, I've been exposed to far too much noise for more than 20 years. Even as a fairly young man, I have a small deficit in the range that's normally first affected; tinnitus, too.
Gotta be careful.
The Tensor Tympani is an itty-bitty muscle that when contracted stiffens the eardrum, giving you that numb, muffled feeling. It's the body's natural defense against steady noise. Impulse noise hits us much harder, no real defense for that.
Oddly, the TT also contracts when a puff of air hits your eyes. Said to be a vestigal reflex from our animal ancestors, when the TT controlled external ear movement...
Plugs plus muffs is good, fitted plugs are great. As a classical musician in the wind section, I've been exposed to far too much noise for more than 20 years. Even as a fairly young man, I have a small deficit in the range that's normally first affected; tinnitus, too.
Gotta be careful.
The Tensor Tympani is an itty-bitty muscle that when contracted stiffens the eardrum, giving you that numb, muffled feeling. It's the body's natural defense against steady noise. Impulse noise hits us much harder, no real defense for that.
Oddly, the TT also contracts when a puff of air hits your eyes. Said to be a vestigal reflex from our animal ancestors, when the TT controlled external ear movement...
That was a very informative post, GeaugaFletcher
Yes, for the most part.
I wear them when I run the snowthrower, when I'm in the train station downtown, and when I'm at rehearsal with a music group I'm in.
I probably should wear them when I mow but don't. Seems like the mower's engine is quieter than the snow-thrower's.
I wear them when I run the snowthrower, when I'm in the train station downtown, and when I'm at rehearsal with a music group I'm in.
I probably should wear them when I mow but don't. Seems like the mower's engine is quieter than the snow-thrower's.
"Do you protect your hearing?"
What ??
What ??
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Originally Posted By: sciphi
I've seen electron microscope photos of the inner ear after being exposed to sustained loud noise for years. It looks like a bomb went off in a forest, with inner ear hair cells flattened, misshapen, and missing.
I recall a safety video explaining repeated loud noises was akin to stepping on grass - eventually the blades will flatten and not bounce back.
I've seen electron microscope photos of the inner ear after being exposed to sustained loud noise for years. It looks like a bomb went off in a forest, with inner ear hair cells flattened, misshapen, and missing.
I recall a safety video explaining repeated loud noises was akin to stepping on grass - eventually the blades will flatten and not bounce back.
I am VERY careful with my hearing, especially since I have lost about 50% of my right ear as a young man (inner ear infection). I use ear muffs or plugs for anything remotely loud. I use Peltor ear muffs - usually the H10A or H7. The H10A block out 29dBa. Here they be:
http://www.amazon.com/Peltor-H10A-Optime-Over-Earmuff/dp/B00009LI4K
The ear plugs I use in the shop lop off 32dBa.
http://www.amazon.com/Peltor-H10A-Optime-Over-Earmuff/dp/B00009LI4K
The ear plugs I use in the shop lop off 32dBa.
I have sensitive hearing and wear ear muffs or foam plugs for most everything that's even close to loud.
I wear them on plane and jet flights and notice hardly anybody else doing the same.
I wear them on plane and jet flights and notice hardly anybody else doing the same.
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