Music to your Ears: hearing aids, music, and musicians

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Music to your ears is an overview of those features that touch upon the care and feeding of musicians, or those, like me who are less talented and who just like to listen to music. Contributions have been made by a group of dedicated people with the goal of improving listenability and safe listening. This may be for hard of hearing children who are about to select their first musical instruments, or about a 20s something rockers who need to understand the more subtle points in choosing hearing protection or in-ear monitors.

This book has nine sections and can be read in any order, with as many items in each section as the reader wants to use. It can be used as a supplement in any university or college course on noise control, or even as part of a music program. Or it could be read with a cup of tea while having one’s feet propped up against the cushions in front of a roaring fire .

Each section of the book has a number of posts, all written with the reader in mind, and balancing scientific fact, humor, and clinical gems making this a very readable and smoothly flowing book.

The nine sections are:
1. Music and hearing loss
2. The acoustics of music
3. Room acoustics and reverberation effects
4. Hearing aids and music
5. In-ear monitors
6. Musicians’ hearing protection
7. Consumer issues
8. Some notable notables
9. Encore i Finale

Like most areas of study, the scientific principles can be used in other, seemingly unrelated areas. While this is a book about music, musical instrument and its effects, the acoustic principles can be applied to the human vocal tract, the acoustics of a classroom, and even the design of a concert hall. And many of the technologies can extend beyond the musician or listening to music, to populations such as the military, and those suffering from post-concussion syndrome.