Klarinet Archive - Posting 000003.txt from 1999/05

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Ear plugs
Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 04:18:05 -0400

Also - (don't) try sitting just where the horns' sound gets
reflected off the back wall.
With feeling,
Roger S.

On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Amy C Delano wrote:

> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 17:35:31 -0400
> From: Amy C Delano <acdelano@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Ear plugs
>
> Try Sitting between the piccolo player and the Eb clarinet player. I sit
> in the worst place in the band. Neither one of them knows the meaning of
> the word intonation and the piccolo player does not know the meaning of
> the word soft. It is not fun.
>
> On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 09:49:36 +1200 "Dodgshun family" <dodgshun@-----.nz>
> writes:
> >
> >>As my summer season starts, I'm thinking about getting some good ear
> >plugs.
> >>(Some band jobs get loud.) A colleague recently got the kind where
> >you can
> >>adjust the decibels you block out. It's also not supposed to distort
> >the
> >>sound like the cheapo foam plugs do. They're fitted to your ear.
> >>
> >>Anybody got these? I'm thinking that seventy bucks is a small price
> >to pay
> >>for saving a little of my hearing. (Gave myself a headache with
> >Daphnis on
> >>Eb last night and I'm thinking this can't be good over time. My
> >former
> >>teacher practiced Eb four hours a day for about four years (no
> >exaggeration)
> >>and has lost a LOT of hearing.)
> >
> >
> >Most musicians here in NZ tend to use the specialist musician's plugs.
> > They
> >don't distort or cut out particular frequencies - they just reduce
> >the
> >overall sound level. All our percussionists use them, as well as some
> >of us
> >who sit in front of particular members of the brass section (alright
> >for me
> >because I sit in front of the horns!). I don't know the specifics of
> >them,
> >just that they work very well.
> >
> >By the way, has anyone else noticed that sitting in front of a
> >trombone
> >section playing at full volume is much less painful than sitting in
> >front of
> >a trumpet section playing full volume? Give me the trombones any
> >time!
> >
> >Anna
> >
> >
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