[Dixielandjazz] Anyone know about high frequency hearing loss/ear plugs f...

[Gluetje1 at aol.com]

Since what the Saint Louis Symphony hands out free for orchestral members  
who want them is simple cheap disposable foam ear plugs which are easily  
available on pharmacy shelves, this is what I use.  They can be used  several 
times before disposing.  I am creative with how I use them; i.e.,  they 
don't have to be both jammed all the way in each ear in most musical  
situations.  Sometimes you can put one only in the ear that's toward the  trumpet 
section you are sitting in front of to play.  Or you can insert  them just very 
loosely about 1/3 of the way into the ear canal such  that you are 
deflecting sound waves but you can still hear music and speech  around you.  I now 
carry them all the time, not to use when I'm playing,  but to use when I end 
up at a concert where the sound is too amplified for  me.  (The dang-fangled 
contemporary church concerts my younger sister tries  to drag me to for 
example.)
Ginny