Klarinet Archive - Posting 000628.txt from 1999/08
From: "Diane Karius, Ph.D." <dikarius@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Audience Distractions - A Response
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 22:12:48 -0400
snip from letter/response:
> >Besides, when one must
> > cough, there is little one can do other than to
> > let it out.
>
> Out of courtesy to the other members of the _audience_ one can make some
> effort to quiet the cough. The hoarse, loud, full-throated eruption that
> some listeners let out seems unnecessary.
>
Although I agree, I must also confess that as an asthmatic, I have
been responsible for a couple of those despite the fact that I always
take extra medication prior to a concert and bring enough cough drops
to supply a small army. Usually there is an additional culprit here
- the individual wearing a large volume of cologne/perfume. Those
loud, hoarse coughs that are mentioned are the real thing - a reflex
sufficiently strong that not much if anything will override them.
I usually leave if my medication won't work (but I have on occassion
found myself in a place where I couldn't leave - in order to get to a
working door, I would have had to crawl over a lot of people (the
door nearest me was off its hinges!)
Don Y. wrote:
>when I'm in the audience. One noise not mentioned is that of
>hearing aids set at a high volume and giving off a high pitched
>note. I heard this at a chamber music concert for about ten solid
>minutes. It was clearly apparent to the players, who continued in
>spite of the serious distraction.
Unfortunately, the wearer of those hearing aids cannot hear that
noise - its too high pitched and the vast majority of elderly people
with hearing loss have lost the high frequencies preferentially.
In addition, when the thing is whistling like that, it is not
working (so communicating the problem to the wearer becomes a greater
challenge - in an already difficulty circumstance).
I don't have any great solutions - there are times that I want to
strangle the offender, there are times I'd like to crawl under my
chair because I'm the offender.
Diane R. Karius, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology
University of Health Sciences
1750 Independence Ave.
Kansas City, MO 641o6-1453
email: dikarius@-----.EDU
http://uhsweb.edu/physio
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