Musician outdoors looking upwards wearing headphones around his neck

A life in music is exciting and rewarding. It’s a job where making noise is essential, but letting it damage your hearing isn’t. It’s a noisy job in a noisy world.

Some of the risks to a musician’s hearing are obvious – performing live and rehearsals can become dangerously loud; but they aren’t the only times during the day where there’s risks.

Just being in a noisy town can pose dangers, whilst journeys on public transport have been proven to be some of the loudest moments of a normal day.

We want everyone working in music to know about these risks, and the simple steps we can take to help avoid irreversible noise induced hearing loss.

Different ways to protect your hearing 

It’s not just the volume levels but the duration, and the duration is cumulative. It’s not like at midnight everything resets for the next day. Musicians have to take into account not just their musical exposure but what happens over the week. Day-to-day sounds, like being on a tube for example, can have an effect on a musician’s exposure.
Fiona Butterworth — Senior Clinical Audiologist at Harley Street Hearing

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