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Re: hearingt aids

Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2016-11-30 19:25

I've had good luck with Widex, though I had to go to the top of the line. Others in a previous thread liked Phonak a lot. If you can do without them and your hearing loss is relatively flat over the range, that's best, of course, but I wouldn't be able to get the balance and tuning in chamber music without them. Unless you do double lip, I think the main difference between clarinet/sax and other woodwinds is bone conduction.

Norman Smale wrote:

> I have used hearing aids on and off for 3-4 years
> I find that with a "music setting" they work fine on flute and
> basson but for clarinet (my primary instrument) they just do
> not work for me.
>
> I think the particular harmonic structure of clarinet sound and
> perhaps the intensity of sound so close to the aids produces an
> unpleasant distortion
>
> I manage now on clarinet quite well without them.

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