[Dixielandjazz] Re:Hearing loss - Loud music (Mike Short)

[TCASHWIGG at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/11/04 3:08:10 PM Pacific Standard Time, Shortuba at aol.com 
writes:

> I have about 20% hearing loss in my left ear, but I know exactly when that 
> happened - we have an every Monday night big band here in Des Moines that I 
> used 
> to play in, and the room is small and trumpet players just LOVE to play loud 
> 
> (as well as high) and a trumpet near my ear caused actual pain.  The one 
> setting that I have played in (besides brass quintet) where I never hear too 
> much 
> sound is in trad and Dixie bands, any of the settings where we play OKOM.  
> Unless I end up too close to the drummer....that's why I try to sit to 
> Kurt's 
> right.  It's the ear that doesn't work well.
> 
That must be why God Invented the ONE MAN BAND.

Cheers,

Tom Wiggins