Musician Hearing Loss: History And Analysis

Historical/Background Information on Musician Hearing Loss Over the years, hearing loss in musicians has increased due to the extensive hours spent in practice without hearing protection. An average amount of practice that a performance based musician does every day is about 5-6 hours of solo practice and another 2-3 hours with the band or orchestra. The location of the musician in the band can also cause unbalanced hearing loss, an example for this would be if a trombone player was sitting on the right of a tuba with the percussion directly to the right of them, this setup would cause more damage to the right ear than the left. Practice rooms can also be very reverberant causing the time for hearing damage to lessen (Johnson, 2014). Hearing loss
A devote person of God that played the harp was David. David is anointed in 1 Samuel 16:16 and can also be seen playing the harp for Saul after an evil spirit has taken him over. Later it is seen in Nehemiah 12:35-37 that many of the leaders of Judah still had them and used them for temple procedures. Written in Psalm 92:3-4 is a proclamation by a man that is overjoyed and wants to sing and play for the Lord. Through these verses we are able to see that music is part of many worships to God and are used at celebrations.
Alongside musicians, the deaf are also seen many times being helped and also being part of Jesus’ miracles of healing. In Isaiah 42:19, Isaiah is preaching to the people about being deaf to the word and also being blind. Deafness can be a physical loss that is able to effect lives but can also be a religious blindness to the way that we are supposed to go. One of Jesus’ many miracles was healing and Mark 7:33-35 reports of a man that was deaf and also could not be understood being healed by Jesus in font of the