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On Feb 20, 2011, at 12:00 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Send Horn mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/horn > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Horn digest..." > > > Please edit replies to include only relevant text. Please DO NOT include the > entire digest in your reply. For more netiquette information, see: > > http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Horn Digest, Vol 98, Issue 18 ([email protected]) > 2. Semi-Horn Related - Potential New Treatment for Tinniuts > (Bill Gross) > 3. Re: Horn Digest, Vol 98, Issue 18 (Hans Pizka) > 4. Listening to nothing (James Maddrey) > 5. Re: Semi-Horn Related - Potential New Treatment for Tinniuts > (Herbert Foster) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:01:36 -0500 (EST) > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Horn Digest, Vol 98, Issue 18 > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > <<Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:39:07 -0800 > From: valerie wells <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Acoustics & E > To: horn list 2 memphis <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >> Listening to nothing is an experience not to be missed. It gets harder > and harder to do.< > > And impossible if you have tinnitis! > > -- > Valerie Wells > The Balanced Embouchure Method > http://bebabe.wordpress.com/ > _http://www.beforhorn.blogspot.com/_ (http://www.beforhorn.blogspot.com/) >> > > Just curious...how many of you have tinnitus? After 35 years of > orchestral playing, I do...and it's really annoying. I'd love to hear from > others > who also have it (and if there is anything to do about it). > > Nina Allen Miller > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:54:40 -0600 > From: "Bill Gross" <[email protected]> > Subject: [Hornlist] Semi-Horn Related - Potential New Treatment for > Tinniuts > To: "'The Horn List'" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > I picked up mine spending time on heavy equipment and the demolition range > more than on stage. My office mate who flew large dual engine helo's till he > retired got his from turbine noise. > > I shared with him this recent article. He says he isn't quite ready to give > it a try. > > http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.f57c40c34c2baca8600a698953d8 > 2048.1e1&show_article=1 > > Scientists have found a way to ease chronic ringing in the ears, known > as tinnitus, by stimulating a neck nerve and playing sounds to reboot > the brain, according to research published Wednesday. > There is currently no cure for tinnitus, which can range from annoying > to debilitating and affects as many as 23 million adults in the United > States, including one in 10 seniors and 40 percent of military veterans. > > > For Gloria Chepko, 66, who has suffered from tinnitus since she was four > years old, the sound she describes as "like crickets... but also > bell-like," gets worse when she is tired. > > "It's awful," she said. "Sometimes it is very loud, and it will get loud > if I am under stress or if I have been going for a very long time and I > am fatigued," she said. > > "If my mind is tired and I sit down I will only hear this sound." > > For some people, such as military veterans who are left with hearing > damage after exposure to loud blasts and gunfire, the noise -- which > could also sound like roaring, whooshing or clicking -- interferes with > their ability to lead a normal life. > > The US Veterans Administration spends one billion dollars per year on > disability payments related to tinnitus, the most common service-related > ailment in soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, industry > experts say. > > Scientists believe the disorder is caused by hearing loss or nerve > damage, to which the brain tries but fails to adjust. > > "Brain changes in response to nerve damage or cochlear trauma cause > irregular neural activity believed to be responsible for many types of > chronic pain and tinnitus," said Michael Kilgard of the University of > Texas, co-author of the study in the journal Nature. > > "We believe the part of the brain that processes sounds -- the auditory > cortex -- delegates too many neurons to some frequencies, and things > begin to go awry," he said. > > To fix that, researchers used rats to test a theory that they could > reset the brain by retraining it so that errant neurons return to their > normal state. > > In rats with tinnitus, they electrically stimulated the vagus nerve, > which runs from the head through the neck to the abdomen, in combination > with playing a certain high-pitched tone. > > When stimulated, the nerve can encourage changes in the brain by > releasing chemicals such as acetylcholine and norepinephrine that act as > neurotransmitters. > > Rats that underwent the pairing of noise and stimulation experienced a > halt to the ringing sounds for up to three and a half months, while > control rats that received just noise or just stimulation did not. > > An examination of neural responses in the auditory cortexes showed > normal levels in the rats who were treated with the combination of > stimulation and sound, indicating the tinnitus had disappeared. > > The treatment "not only reorganized the neurons to respond to their > original frequencies, but it also made the brain responses sharper," the > study said. > > "The key is that, unlike previous treatments, we're not masking the > tinnitus, we're not hiding the tinnitus," said Kilgard. > > "We are returning the brain from a state where it generates tinnitus to > a state that does not generate tinnitus. We are eliminating the source > of the tinnitus." > > Clinical trials are expected to begin on humans in the coming months, > with the first trials starting in Europe, according to lead study author > Navzer Engineer. > > The process of vagus nerve stimulation, known as VNS, is already being > used in the treatment of around 50,000 people with epilepsy or > depression, the study said. > > "This minimally invasive method of generating neural plasticity allows > us to precisely manipulate brain circuits, which cannot be achieved with > drugs," said Engineer. > > "Pairing sounds with VNS provides that precision by rewiring damaged > circuits and reversing the abnormal activity that generates the phantom > sound." > > Like many sufferers, Chepko has learned to cope with the noise. > > "I have to find some other way to relax to just endure it, take a bath > or do stretches or just lie down and stare or read a book, depending on > how bad it is," she said. > > "I have kind of lived around it, or over it." > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:06:37 +0100 > From: Hans Pizka <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Horn Digest, Vol 98, Issue 18 > To: The Horn List <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII > > If you have played as much as I did in the orchestra (about 8000 performances > & 3000 rehearsals > with my last orchestra during 40 years on first chair, but also 6 years full > orchestra - opera & symphony > before in two other orchestras, all the extra jobs during about 50 years > playing professionally), > no wonder about developing tinnitus, like me. But also hearing difficulties > which manifest themselves > as a certain difficulty understanding fast speech & sloppy speech and if many > people speak crosswise to > each other. But I can live with that & enjoy retirement, still soloing from > time to time for charity or > participating in our orchestra composed from retired professionals & lay > musicians. It is great fun. > The more alive ex pro ?, well, it is great fun to enthusiast the lay > musicians to play better & better, to > entertain the audiences. This orchestra exists now 29 years. > > ############################################################################## > Am 19.02.2011 um 21:01 schrieb [email protected]: > >> <<Message: 1 >> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:39:07 -0800 >> From: valerie wells <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Acoustics & E >> To: horn list 2 memphis <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: >> <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >>> Listening to nothing is an experience not to be missed. It gets harder >> and harder to do.< >> >> And impossible if you have tinnitis! >> >> -- >> Valerie Wells >> The Balanced Embouchure Method >> http://bebabe.wordpress.com/ >> _http://www.beforhorn.blogspot.com/_ (http://www.beforhorn.blogspot.com/) >> >> >> Just curious...how many of you have tinnitus? After 35 years of >> orchestral playing, I do...and it's really annoying. I'd love to hear from >> others >> who also have it (and if there is anything to do about it). >> >> Nina Allen Miller >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> post: [email protected] >> unsubscribe or set options at >> https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/hpizka%40me.com > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:54:34 -0500 > From: James Maddrey <[email protected]> > Subject: [Hornlist] Listening to nothing > To: The Horn List <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > What do you mean it gets harder and harder to listen to? > As you get older, it gets easier and easier to listen to nothing in > the higher frequencies. > I'm 89 and I listen to nothing out of my right ear. My left ear listens > to nothing above C > above the staff. > Who would want to listen to nothing anyway, it's the same old thing > over and over and >...................... > > [email protected] > > > > > On Feb 319, 1820112010, at 3:01 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> <<Message: 1 >> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:39:07 -0800 >> From: valerie wells <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Acoustics & E >> To: horn list 2 memphis <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: >> <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >>> Listening to nothing is an experience not to be missed. It gets >>> harder >> and harder to do.< >> >> And impossible if you have tinnitis! >> >> -- >> Valerie Wells >> The Balanced Embouchure Method >> http://bebabe.wordpress.com/ >> _http://www.beforhorn.blogspot.com/_ >> (http://www.beforhorn.blogspot.com/) >> >> >> Just curious...how many of you have tinnitus? After 35 years of >> orchestral playing, I do...and it's really annoying. I'd love to >> hear from others >> who also have it (and if there is anything to do about it). >> >> Nina Allen Miller >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> post: [email protected] >> unsubscribe or set options at >> https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/ >> youngjim80%40bellsouth.net >> > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 05:03:20 -0800 (PST) > From: Herbert Foster <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Semi-Horn Related - Potential New Treatment > for Tinniuts > To: The Horn List <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Interesting. I wonder if it would have helped Schumann. Fortunately tinnitus > doesn't drive me crazy: I've had it for about 50 years. It sounds like the 15 > KHz sound you used to get from TVs, caused by the flyback transformer. > > Herb Foster > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Bill Gross <[email protected]> > To: The Horn List <[email protected]> > Sent: Sat, February 19, 2011 3:54:40 PM > Subject: [Hornlist] Semi-Horn Related - Potential New Treatment for Tinniuts > > I picked up mine spending time on heavy equipment and the demolition range > more than on stage. My office mate who flew large dual engine helo's till he > retired got his from turbine noise. > > I shared with him this recent article. He says he isn't quite ready to give > it a try. > > http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.f57c40c34c2baca8600a698953d8 > 2048.1e1&show_article=1 > > ... > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/horn > > End of Horn Digest, Vol 98, Issue 19 > ************************************ > _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
