The dreaded "Hearing loss"
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 2:21 pm
Hi all.
As someone who has experienced hearing loss most of my life, ( thanks to jet engines while in the Navy 50 years ago )
and wearing hearing aids the last few years, it's been a challenge for me to judge how tones of my guitar playing, are actually sounding.
The hearing aids help to hear most sounds, although with very limited "tone" quality.
Of course I haven't let that keep me from murdering a lot of music over the years.
I had some dental implants put in last Fall, which got infected and I had to take two anti-biotics for 3 months.
As I have found out the hard way, anti-biotics are known to damage auditory nerves.
Well ..... "they DID"
So, now, I'm almost deaf in one ear, and the other has more damage than before.
I don't remember seeing any posts on this board, about anyone's experiences with "hearing aids" and how it has affected their guitar playing.
I suppose they just "keep on picking".
I know a lot of us "Chet pickers" are "seniors" and I'm guessing, I'm not the only one with hearing problems.
I also find myself wondering if Chet or Paul had hearing issues. Obviously, if they did, it didn't stop them from playing some mighty beautiful music that gave me "goose bumps" from time to time.
In all the years that Chet fought health problems, it would seem he would have had to deal with hearing problems too, on top of everything else.
bill
As someone who has experienced hearing loss most of my life, ( thanks to jet engines while in the Navy 50 years ago )
and wearing hearing aids the last few years, it's been a challenge for me to judge how tones of my guitar playing, are actually sounding.
The hearing aids help to hear most sounds, although with very limited "tone" quality.
Of course I haven't let that keep me from murdering a lot of music over the years.
I had some dental implants put in last Fall, which got infected and I had to take two anti-biotics for 3 months.
As I have found out the hard way, anti-biotics are known to damage auditory nerves.
Well ..... "they DID"
So, now, I'm almost deaf in one ear, and the other has more damage than before.
I don't remember seeing any posts on this board, about anyone's experiences with "hearing aids" and how it has affected their guitar playing.
I suppose they just "keep on picking".
I know a lot of us "Chet pickers" are "seniors" and I'm guessing, I'm not the only one with hearing problems.
I also find myself wondering if Chet or Paul had hearing issues. Obviously, if they did, it didn't stop them from playing some mighty beautiful music that gave me "goose bumps" from time to time.
In all the years that Chet fought health problems, it would seem he would have had to deal with hearing problems too, on top of everything else.
bill