Buzzing in the ears while playing?

lixnaw · Post by **lixnaw** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 11:08 am

what kinda whistles do you play? if you play metal once, then try a non metal for a while, like the burke composite. that might solve it.
mostly the buzz is just your own blood that you hear. sometimes hopi earcandles do the job. sometimes allternative therapie, but good therapist are very hard to find.
if you're looking for ear plugs, i heard about a kind that won't block every sound, just the very high ones won't be heard. i forgot the name but it's something with alpine, sold in music shops.
i'd the buzz myself for some years, but nows it's completly gone.

aderyn_du · Post by **aderyn_du** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 11:48 am

Martin Milner wrote:Hi Sara,

If your ears are waxy, the nurse will tell you to put a few drops of warm olive oil in your ears every day for a week or two to soften & loosen the wax, and then use a syringe of water to give your ears an internal shower. It takes a few minutes, and your hearing will be dramatically clearer.

This is a good way to loosen wax, but I'm also a huge fan of ear-candling(also known as coning). You can read about it here. It is a helpful remedy for tinnitus too.

All the best,
Andrea

Kar · Post by **Kar** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 12:15 pm

I've had that weird "click" in my ear (left) during playing the whistle. I can't really describe it, but I only hear it when it's quiet and I'm playing. I still am not sure what it is. I'm so glad someone else has experienced this!

BTW, I wear earplugs ALL THE TIME, mostly on public transportation. Subways and buses and city noises can be very damaging. But I also wear them when playing anything above my high C indoors. They really help.

Thomas-Hastay · Post by **Thomas-Hastay** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 2:30 pm

Sara

A quick way to find out if you have a hearing problem is to use a cheap set of foam earplugs. Foam earplugs remove 90 db of the volume(mostly high frequency) from your ear canal. If the "whistle" vanishes while playing, you just have a sensitivity to high frequencies. If not, see a doctor.

Soineanta · Post by **Soineanta** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 5:16 pm

Thanks everyone,

I’d think it was just an ear infection or something. I'd definitely go to the doctor to be sure that was all it was, though.

I don't think so.. it's been going on for years, and it doesn't feel like an infection at all.

The fact that the sound pulses does suggest to me it's more likely your own heartbeat & bloodflow you're hearing. Don't take this wrong, but might you need wax syringed out of your ears? I wear a headset at work, and a couple of times my ear has blocked up with wax - always the ear I wear the headset on. Wax in the ear is normal, and usually expelled naturally, but if you wear earphones or headphones a lot, it can accumulate.

Could be.. but it isn't really the SOUND that pulses. It's really hard to explain. It's more of a feeling of something thumping in my ear. (A little bunny rabbit?) I clean my ears out pretty often, but like I said, this has been going on for awhile. And I virtually never wear headphones. Thanks for the olive oil suggestion though.. I'll have to try that!

what kinda whistles do you play? if you play metal once, then try a non metal for a while, like the burke composite. that might solve it.
mostly the buzz is just your own blood that you hear. sometimes hopi earcandles do the job. sometimes allternative therapie, but good therapist are very hard to find.
if you're looking for ear plugs, i heard about a kind that won't block every sound, just the very high ones won't be heard. i forgot the name but it's something with alpine, sold in music shops.
i'd the buzz myself for some years, but nows it's completly gone.

All my whistles are metal, so I can't really try that... and, good! That gives me hope.

I'm gonna try out some of the things you guys suggested, and will be seeing a doctor sometime in the kinda-near future. Thanks again for all the info and input. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 5:41 pm

Buzzing in the ears especially on certain notes is indication of a possible problem.

On certain notes? Which notes? I think now that I've been trying to notice, that on G and above mostly, I can hear something on all my whistles, but I'm not sure if it's 'buzzing'.

I also sort mabey not really believe that hearing is more closely related to your sixth sense than any other sense, and that if your psychic senses are well developed, your hearing is too, probably, and higher frequencies affect you more.

thurlowe · Post by **thurlowe** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 7:40 pm

I'm a bit dubious where ear-candling is involved. So if I may include my own link in this discussion: http://skepdic.com/coning.html

Not to take away from others' positive experiences, but I wanted to add a different position on the phenomenon. I think Robert Carroll does good work in his "Skeptic's Dictionary."

Coincidentally, he's a huge, huge fan of Irish music. That site is quite good too, I think. http://ireland.skepdic.com/homepage.html He makes suggestions for music, books, travel, even B&Bs.

Cara

Bretton · Post by **Bretton** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 8:08 pm

thurlowe wrote:I'm a bit dubious where ear-candling is involved. So if I may include my own link in this discussion: http://skepdic.com/coning.html

Butt Candling (link on page mentioned above)

ROFL!

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Mon Apr 14, 2003 8:10 pm

I'm outta here!

lixnaw · Post by **lixnaw** » Tue Apr 15, 2003 12:28 pm

i knew you was under cover there all the time jerry, you're a dodgy man all together!

jduffy · Post by **jduffy** » Thu Apr 17, 2003 9:36 am

Hey everyone,

I just bought some musician's earplugs from:

http://www.etymotic.com/musicians/more20.asp

They're only 12$ a pair and designed to pass music without distortion, just 20dB quieter. I played the high 2nd octave notes on my whistle and didn't experience any discomfort. They also come in a nice carrying case and you can purchase removable neck cords for them for 1$.

-Joe

Pan · Post by **Pan** » Thu Apr 17, 2003 10:37 am

I also have this problem, or rather two.

One is when I play the 2nd octave on a high D (more so on the Copeland than on the Abell due to volume diffrences) then I get a "bzzzz" sound sort of mixed with the "pure" sound from the whistle. This "bzzz´ing" is most probably distortion added in the ear due to the high SPL. Nothing that worries me much but probably damaging to the hearing if we talking long time.

Second problem is really annoying and I only have it in left ear and it´s like your "little bunny" jumping on my eardrum.
This happens on certain notes both on whistle and guitar. Sometimes it starts with relatively high or low notes but mostly with dynamic midrange notes. It sounds like a really low frequency are overloading my eardrum creating a dull "boof boof" sound.

I´m pretty sure this is some kind of spasms created by the muscles that are on the inside of the ear drum. The problem can have been started by an infection OR by non-careful cleaning with a "q-tip" or what you call them.

I went to see a doctor a month ago and she told me my left eardrum was slightly "bending" inwards, as if there was a vacuum inside my head (hahahaha hehe maybe there is

), and I´m wating to see a ear specialist Dr.

I have had this problem since lst summer when I begun to play my Copelands???

Could it be high spl´s that created this or did I do this to myself while cleaning my ears??? I really don´t know but I sure hope this will go away.
When it is really bad I get it when watching TV, listening to my stereo and such activities, but most often it´s from high dynamic music sounds from my whistles and guitar, mostly mid and high notes from the guitar and mostly the middle of the 1st octave on my low D.

/Peter

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