Hello!
I've just started to learn sax. I practice on alto sax in a small room with no furniture at the moment. It's almost empty. When I just started couple of weeks ago I noticed how loud the saxophone was. At first I even felt a little nervous that my neighbours would object my practice. Apparently it doesn't disturb them.
Yesterday my wife came into my practice room and said to me: "Are you crazy?!!". She couldn't stay in the room because it was so loud!
She expressed to me what I noticed in the very beginningh of my practice with this instrument.
My question is: 'Can saxophone make any permanent damage to human hearing in the conditions I described?'. I read some articles on the Internet that discussed maximum allowable sound levels above which permanent hearing damage would be quite possible.
I suppose many people practice in small rooms with more or less furniture. Have you ever thought of exceeding your safe hearing limits with playing the sax?
I've just started to learn sax. I practice on alto sax in a small room with no furniture at the moment. It's almost empty. When I just started couple of weeks ago I noticed how loud the saxophone was. At first I even felt a little nervous that my neighbours would object my practice. Apparently it doesn't disturb them.
Yesterday my wife came into my practice room and said to me: "Are you crazy?!!". She couldn't stay in the room because it was so loud!
She expressed to me what I noticed in the very beginningh of my practice with this instrument.
My question is: 'Can saxophone make any permanent damage to human hearing in the conditions I described?'. I read some articles on the Internet that discussed maximum allowable sound levels above which permanent hearing damage would be quite possible.
I suppose many people practice in small rooms with more or less furniture. Have you ever thought of exceeding your safe hearing limits with playing the sax?