Musical Hygiene

mfrench

mfrench

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Hoping this one goes as weird as the potential will allow.

clean hands before touching media?
radioactive tubes?
the fun of lead solder

Without getting to the level of bio-hazard scrub-down,... how far do you take it.

Me:
I can now hear most of my right speaker after a rough week of tinnitus, or so I thought. I was concerned about not hearing as well, despite the screaming ears. My right ear was feeling pretty muted.
Showered up, soaked ears in warm shower stream. Got out of shower, dribbled some hydrogen peroxide in to get all foamy. Then a soft push of the ear wash bulb, and out popped my attenuating plug; the sinister ear wax,... Aaaccckkk!
Its nice to realize that I can now hear my right speaker again without holding my hand behind my ear.
 
As a guy who spent much of his career managing risk, I have a keen appreciation for how poorly most of the world understands relative risk. IMO, folks today tend to worry far too much about things that are, relatively speaking, very small incremental risks. Conversely, folks tend to miss the dangers of highly-risky activities in which they engage daily (or even more often). For example (and one which I use purely illustratively), getting in the car and driving to work is far more likely to shorten one's lifespan than jamming a cell phone up to one's head and dosing one's brain with microwaves.

Dangerousness relative risks of activities by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

Cleaning out ear wax? Couldn't hoit, as our friends in the Boroughs might say...
 
well, aspirin is a blood thinner. I reckon if you've got enough in you, you might bleed out?
Headaches only, for me. Music works just as well.

One good thing about music; when it hits you feel no pain. BMW
 
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Aspirin is, as noted above, a "blood thinner" (inhibits clotting) and is used therapeutically (and, especially, prophylactically) as such. Apirin is also capable of inducing life-threatening bleeding. It is also (in the opinion of my postdoc advisor, who is an MD/PhD with some appreciation of the topic) "the safest drug known to Man[kind]". It's all relative.

I guess this isn't on-topic, but I guess :-) my point is that the benefit of any "treatment" should be weighed against the risks. Conversely, the risks of certain things (e.g., I dunno, getting weird diseases from fondling one's triodes) should probably be weighed against likelihood.

All of which, I guess, is to say:

I'll eat a piece of food that fell on the floor -- depending on the food... and the floor.

;-)

 
I clean my ears regularly using hydrogen peroxide and a soft ear/nose bulb to rinse.

It certainly makes a difference from both comfort and critical listening perspectives.
 
Ok, I just bought my first ear-cleaning kit. Maybe some of the miss high frequencies will come back. Some of them I know I lost to my garage band days.
 
About 10 years ago one of my ears got clogged so I went to the doc. He did the water and syringe routine and I was amazed at how much wax came from my ear. Hard to quantify but it was like several small pebbles worth, way more than I thought could fit.
 
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