Klarinet Archive - Posting 001213.txt from 2003/06

From: William Edinger <wde2@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Electronic Acoustical Performance
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 19:46:03 -0400

I couldn't agree more with Karl Krelove about amplification and
over-amplification. I took my daughter to "Miss Saigon" recently, and
the distortion really played havoc with hearing the lyrics, to say
nothing of the pain. Amplified music is doing the same type of damage
to young ears as gallons of sugared sodas is doing to their pancreases:
killing them with overload.
Yesterday I was in L.A. to see Lily Tomlin's "The Search...," and they
were offering free headphone sets for amplification, used mostly by the
elderly. Her voice needed amplification for the one-woman show, since
it's a fairly big house, but it was extremely well-done and never
approached distortion or pain. Instead of forcing people with healthy
hearing to plug their ears, we'd all be better off if those who've
ruined their own hearing would wear personal amplification instead.

Bill Edinger

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Music and wine are one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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