How Music May Help Ward Off Hearing Loss

[django1]

Fixed it. Sorry...:(

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011...f-hearing-loss

[tesseract]

If you don't use it, you lose it.

[django1]

If you don't use it, you lose it.

Wouldn't it be ironic though that after all those years of "turn that music down, you'll go deaf" that it was the other way around?

[tesseract]

How about a reversal of that old adage "If you keep doing that, you will go blind". :brainiac: :eek:

[dvenardos]

Interesting. I wonder if it extends to listening to music rather than playing, or if something in the act of playing helps refine the auditory skills.

[Kevin_Wadsworth]

There is the old caveat: Correlation is not Causation. Perhaps people with better hearing tend to play musical instruments rather than the other way around.

Empirically, I would say that there is something to being able to train your ear (just like training anything else). My sense of pitch was excellent back in high school when I sany/played piano/playetd trumped every day of the week. Now that I sing/play intermittently my pitch is not as good.