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Years of working in TV Master control with whirring computer/server fans and the whine of tape machine gradually destroyed my hearing leaving with with a lessened sense of tone and pitch along with needing hearing aids just for normal speech.
I've picked up the acoustic guitar again hoping to retrain my ears. I was playing my housemate's father's guitar - a small 'parlor' guitar from the early 1950s and although I used a tuner to tune the strings it just sounded off. It needed refurbishment so I handed it off to a guitar repair shop.and it came back in better shape, but it still sounded off.
I started checking individual notes and discovered the intonation was off. If I tuned the guitar strings with a tuner the chords were out of tune. So I tuned it to itself and noticed a distinct difference; it sounded... better. It may be one of those guitars that you need to tune to itself.
This experience shows that I have retained some sense of pitch which is a good thing. I'm hoping to spend more time playing guitar and bass to re-educate my ears.
I've picked up the acoustic guitar again hoping to retrain my ears. I was playing my housemate's father's guitar - a small 'parlor' guitar from the early 1950s and although I used a tuner to tune the strings it just sounded off. It needed refurbishment so I handed it off to a guitar repair shop.and it came back in better shape, but it still sounded off.
I started checking individual notes and discovered the intonation was off. If I tuned the guitar strings with a tuner the chords were out of tune. So I tuned it to itself and noticed a distinct difference; it sounded... better. It may be one of those guitars that you need to tune to itself.
This experience shows that I have retained some sense of pitch which is a good thing. I'm hoping to spend more time playing guitar and bass to re-educate my ears.
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