In Michigan, I do believe, it is illegal to play music loudly like kids do when they play the rap crap while driving by for example. It's illegal even to a lesser degree of volume than how many of them play it. It's considered noise polution. However, I have never seen anyone stopped for it that I was aware of. Being able to hear this music coming from several blocks away is the most annoying thing of all to me especially when they choose my street to drive down. Not to mention having to set next to one of these people at a traffic light with their windows wide open blasting your face off. I often see people driving with headsets on too. I've noticed that 98 % of them are not looking around or paying attention to what is going on but are more engolfed in what is coming out of that headset as they are bopping back and forth with the music while at the same time texting and talking on their cell phones. Kids mostly.. And no, they can't seem to hear a thing either that is going on around them either. From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of paul bruesch Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 12:31 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Hearing Improvement I'm not sure of every state's laws, but in Minnesota it is illegal to wear headphones or earplugs while driving (Minnesota Statute 169.471(2)(a).) Think about it... how are we alerted to certain events/circumstances while driving? The police siren, the other driver without brakes who's about to slam into you blasting his horn, the other driver locking her brakes and screeching to, hopefully, a stop... if you have your music turned up so far that you need earplugs to hear it, you're removing a sense (hearing) that is very important to driving safety. Not to mention that if you're in town (no one has said that, I know) it is extremely annoying. Think "thumper cars." It seems clear to me that having music turned to a volume which requires earplugs also distracts from the business of driving, and we should not be promoting it. Crank 'er up to 11 when you get home. My 2c Paul Bruesch Stillwater, MN On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Kent Swafford <kswafford at gmail.com> wrote: The concept is much the same whether you are piano tuning or listening to music in a car. Improving the signal to noise ratio is good. Improving the signal to noise ratio is something you tend to learn if you do audio recording. To hear the details of music in a car, you want to turn up the music to be louder than the road noise. But doing so makes the music dangerously loud. Put in hearing protection and both the music _and_ road noise are attenuated. If the hearing protection is chosen to mask most of the road noise, then when you turn the music up, you safely hear the music without the road noise. Blaine knows of what he speaks. Piano tuning is much the same. Mask the environment sounds with hearing protection, then pound away on those test blows. Kent Swafford On Sep 8, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Diane Hofstetter wrote: Earplugs are wonderful for tuning! They improve the signal to noise ratio, thus making it easier to hear the piano by making the background noise less prominent. On Sep 8, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Blaine Hebert wrote: Actually, what I was referring to was the improved sound quality with much louder sound volume to drown out road noise. _____ avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 090908-0, 09/08/2009 Tested on: 9/9/2009 8:58:31 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090909/c283049d/attachment-0001.htm>
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