... the musically/technically-inclined to join the ranks of boilermakers, truck drivers, artillery gunners and others whose occupations have rendered them partly or effectively deaf. We've done it to ourselves and we"re doing it to our audiences in our ignorance. This article will describe how the hearing ... a trade-off between how loud the music is and how long you are exposed to it. Ignore this fact and you will progressively go deaf. The cilia of the inner ear are directly affected by the amplitude of the oscillations in their environment. If you make them wave too vigorously ... heari...

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