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panbiker
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Hearing Stanley's comment in another thread about someone he knew at Lancaster Uni that made a radio with a bucket and a coat hanger has got me going.
I'm going to need one or two bits and pieces to make this work.
Some wire, a safety pin, a pencil, some kind of earpiece and a razor blade. That should just about do it.
An appeal to all the locals, probably the blokes. Ideally I need one of those old fashioned single sided razor blades (preferably blued), although this could be sorted if its not. A later generation double sided Blue Gillette blade would probably do at a pinch but the single sided ones have recesses in the right place for fixing. Can anyone help?
We shall make music or speech (or both) out of the ether once we get the kit together.
Ian
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Tizer
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Posted - 09/09/2008 : 20:11
Belle and Mercury, all of my post except the first sentence is simply copied and pasted from the Hearing Aid World web site - I should have put the whole thing in inverted commas (which I will do with an edit).
I'm quite happy to bow to what the NHS site says. I've got no knowledge or experience of hearing aids (except my dad's which doesn't work well because he doesn't wear it) but just wanted to find a bit of info to help Mercury.
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Posted - 09/09/2008 : 20:49
As someone with one good ear, one duff one, and one digital hearing aid I feel the need to butt in here.
As I understand it, the whole point about a digital hearing aid is that it can be programmed to suit each infidivdual's need. No hearing aid is a complete cure for hearing loss.
What I did discover last year is that different hearing specialists will give you different answers. My ENT Specialists turned me down for a hearing aid. When I was referred to a different hospital, for a different type of aid, they did more tests and changed the previous diagnosis. Currently, I have a digital hearing aid ( which does seem to help after a fashion ).
Of course, what Tizer says about Parents and hearing aids generally holds true for all the elderly. My Dad reckons his doesn't work. He does however wear it to stop my Mum moaning at him, what she doesn't realise is that he doesn't normally put a battery in it!
Malcolm
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Stanley
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Posted - 10/09/2008 : 05:59
I think we need Mags on this topic...... I go for the one ear problem because even tough I survive fairly well in the normal world despite having a slight hearing loss due to guns, rivetting and diesels, I do have a small problem when on the phone and listening though one ear. Mind you, at my age it's a small price to pay.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Tizer
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Posted - 10/09/2008 : 09:59
I don't have a hearing aid but it won't be long before I need one. Background noise and low pitch give me problems now. It's also difficult to tell whether the problems I have listening to TV programmes are due to my ears or to poor sound in the programmes - I suspect both.
Many people with the aids complain that they "make things too noisy", especially background noise, and this is often a reason for not wearing them. I've assumed that much of this is because as our hearing declines we get used to a lower sound level. Then put a hearing aid in and it all sounds too noisy. But after buying a little MP3 player to plug into my ear I wonder if this is similar to having a hearing aid - when I listen to speech on the MP3 player all external background noise seems to interfere more. Is there some common factor here? Whether we are hearing recorded speech through an MP3 player or real speech through a hearing aid, do both instruments somehow make it more difficult for our ears to subtract the background?
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Posted - 10/09/2008 : 11:50
Tizer,my dear, I was not referring to your post about hearing aids..but an earlier one in this topic, scroll back and you will see that just after I had posted, you posted, a little narked about people going off topic...hence my reference to that's what og does best..(goes off topic!)
Re your hearing difficulties..is this a new thing?.. I have had problems with background noise making it hard for me to hear for a long time, turns out it has nothing to do with my ears...it's my brain that can't do the filtering.
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Mercury
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Posted - 10/09/2008 : 18:35
Belle - it was me that started the 'off topic' thread by way of a simple analogy (!) to illustrate time delay! Sorry!
I'm sure we'll be back on the proper thread soon, and looking forward to some pics from Panny!
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Tizer
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Posted - 10/09/2008 : 19:44
Belle, thanks for the clarification - and for your concern about my hearing difficulties. It's been a very gradual change over the years. I notice it when trying to listen to conversation in a crowded room or other busy place and assume the background noise interferes with my "reception". But I suppose it might be my brain rather than my ears! Can I get a "brain aid" instead of a hearing aid, I wonder?
Panny, Panny, are you hearing us, we haven't really tried to steal your thread, over and out....
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panbiker
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Posted - 10/09/2008 : 20:07
I started it Tizer but It's not my thread, I reckon it belongs to everyone. As you said a bit further up, it does seem to be almost the norm to go off sideways in most threads from time to time. If you notice it was a gradual slide. A bit like the puzzles, change this word to that word in six moves etc.
I will get the thread back on topic as soon as I have got the makings of the project to hand. Stanley made me an offer to have a furtle through some of his treasure a few days ago. I think I will take him up on the offer and then we can get going.
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Posted - 12/09/2008 : 15:53
treasure furtling...it's a whole new craze...actually it's a whole old craze...I was just sewing a button on for one of my clan the other day and I fell to wondering how many relatives or otherwise, when clearing out the home of their deceased , ever take time to look in the button box....there are all sorts of treasures in mine....jet buttons, soldiers buttons, a boot hook, name tapes and numbers from the 50's, tiny, gold safety pins, little lego flowers, ladybird buttons from childrens dressing gowns, bone crochet hooks.....no wonder it always takes me ages to sew a button on...i just drift off down memory lane!
something else I heard to day...(well it's a bit back to hearing!) a workman whistling..used to be a daily occurance when I was young but now they are a bit like rare birds!
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Stanley
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Posted - 13/09/2008 : 07:28
I used to whistle all the time but as I get older I can't do it as well but can still be heard doing it as I walk. People from the sub-continent think you are Beloved of Allah. (mentally ill) Mind you most of them think we are crazy to give dogs house room...... My house is full of treasures and means that in meritation terms it is the perfect place as everything I look on has meaning for me.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Julie in Norfolk
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Posted - 13/09/2008 : 08:44
There is probably a health and safety issue related to whistling and extreme pursing of the lips! I should think that the walkman started the ending of whistling and now MP3 players provide the music whilst you work. Personally I don't miss the whistling.
I mis-typed something then, hit a wrong key and printed off my reply! Magic or what! Must have hit the ctrl key.
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Stanley
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Posted - 14/09/2008 : 06:47
Jules, I was laid in bed last night at about 11pm listening to the booming percussion of a local sound polluter (noon to midnight plus flashing lights each friday saturday and sunday) and as I blanked it out and drifted off to sleep I reflected that whether you whistle or not probably depends on how suitable your favourite music is to human reproduction. Same applies to singing or humming, I do a lot of both. Today's 'music' is probably largely computer generated and the personal stero etc is probably the only way you can have music on the move. My way is less expensive on batteries...... ( I sing hymns to Jack occasionally as well, he thinks it is very interesting!)
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Julie in Norfolk
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Posted - 14/09/2008 : 13:23
Another side to this is whether one can whistle. As I can produce nothing better than a breezy wheep, I am totally agin whistling until I can do it as well.
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Stanley
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Posted - 14/09/2008 : 17:24
Years of practice and the right shaped lips......
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Mercury
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Posted - 14/09/2008 : 18:19
Well at least we're still 'on topic', as amateur radio is all about whistling noises. But I'm slightly worried by Julie's "breezy wheep"! I do hope this isn't related to a slight digestive problem..., and whether that h is supposed to be there!
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