Evaluation of Sound Exposure and Risk of Hearing Impairment in Orchestral Musicians

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Field

Occupational health

Year

2011

Core idea

Measures sound levels and estimates hearing-loss risk across orchestral sections.

Why it stuck

Confirms that brass sections really are a long-term project in controlled inner-ear destruction.

My take

Nothing motivates you to keep SPL under 85 dBA like seeing your instrument in the ‘high risk’ column, again.