Defending your tuning

[Diane Hofstetter]

David,

As I mentioned to John, I have _central processing_ issues that make it more 
difficult for me to distinguish voices in noise.  Then there are _temporal 
processing_ issues that make it more difficult as we get slower  (enjoy life 
more :-)   In addition, the biggest problems of hearing in noise are caused 
by hearing loss.  A person with a bad hearing loss can sit in a quiet room 
and hold a conversation with another person quite easily; put him in a noisy 
room and he can't understand much of what is going on around him.

Diane



Diane Hofstetter




----Original Message Follows----
From: "Porritt, David" <dporritt at mail.smu.edu>
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Subject: RE: Defending your tuning
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:59:55 -0500

John:

Your comment about hearing conversation in noisy rooms is very common in
our profession.  Maybe Diane has some insight.

dp

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David M. Porritt, RPT
dporritt at smu.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On
Behalf Of John Formsma
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 8:52 AM
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Subject: Re: Defending your tuning

Probably because that's where he focuses his hearing.

I tend to think that we as piano tuners listen to such a broad
spectrum of sound that we tend to lose the ability to focus well on
speech. For instance, we might not hear words clearly, though there is
nothing wrong with our hearing.

I had my hearing tested last year, and it's normal, but I do have
small problems sometimes hearing conversation if there is a lot of
noise in the room.  I think it might be because I've focused my brain
so hard to listen for everything that I end up hearing everything in
the room.

FWIW,

JF

On 7/24/07, Robin Blankenship <tunerdude at comcast.net> wrote:
 >
 > Very curious affair. Strange to me that above F6, he did not seem to
care.
 >
 > Robin Blankenship