Music and Hearing Loss
My husband played in a band when he was a teenager and still enjoys getting together with friends and playing music. The name of his first band was Tears of Joy. The group he plays with now doesn’t have an official name but I call them The Weezers and Geezers.
I love it that my husband is musically gifted but his years of playing in a band have come with a price. He definitely doesn’t hear as well as he once did, but neither do I and even though I had guitar lessons, I can’t play but three chords. My hearing was probably damaged because I was a typical teenager. I listened to Deep Purple’s Smoke on the Water on my eight-track tape player as loud as it would go. And if you are so young that you don’t know what an eight-track player is, look it up on Wikipedia, you young whipper-snapper!
When we are teenagers we don’t think about what listening to music too loud might do to our hearing, but by the time I had children I realized the danger. I made them turn it down when they were around me but I know they probably waited until they were out of my sight and turned it up so loud it vibrated the windows.
Now it’s my turn to worry about my grandchildren and their hearing. When will the human race learn that we can appreciate music without it being so loud that it blows our hair backwards!
Source: http://www.herzan.com/resources/articles/hearing-loss-and-musicians.html
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Good Lord – mom loved Deep Purple. *mom glaring at me* (she just had a birthday and I told everyone she was 600 years old! BOL!) Lucky for me I’m a dog and have super-hearing ears. *points paw to pointy ears* Thank you for joining my Thankful Thursday Blog Hop and look forward to reading more posts from you; hope you will join again! *waves paw* :=o)
My hearing loss must be genetic and old age, because I always tried to protect my ears. One thing we must always do is to listen and hear the voice of the Lord when he speaks in His solf inward voice.
Thank you for this graphic. Great info.
Like Joni Mitchell signs, ‘you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone’. Thanks for the info & for hosting. Happy Valentine’s Day!
Happy Valentine’s Day Teresa and thanks for hosting your fun new party! Adding it to my party list 🙂
I’m pretty sure I must have some hearing loss from when I was a teen, going to concerts and listening to music VERY loud in my headphones. Great information…
Paula
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My husband has played drums his whole life, and I find this message you’ve got up a really good one to share!
Thanks for hosting the hop.
This is good information to have since my 7 year old has been taking guitar for a couple of years now. I also enjoy loud music. Food for thought!
Wow, this is marvelous and I’m going to pin this too for all my musician friends. My husband too has had a band since high school, and has his own band today, “The Designated Riders”! In fact, I’m their agent. Going to have to show this to the hubby being as he’s 55 now & still enjoys his music cranked up with his Classical Rock & blues. Great Post. Thanks for sharing.
That graphic is interesting. I don’t enjoy loud music or sounds, so evidence that it’s harmful is appreciated. I think I’ll pin this.
All the men in my husband’s family (including one of my sons) have poor hearing, but none are musicians. They would each attribute it to a different thing, until I finally pointed out this thing called genetics. 😉