Snare drum doldrums.[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Marching bands, which expose young ears to loud sounds, can cause irreparable hearing damage, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Brian Fligor, director of diagnostic audiology audiology /au·di·ol·o·gy/ (aw?de-ol´ah-je) the study of impaired hearing that cannot be improved by medication or surgical therapy. au·di·ol·o·gy n. at Children's Hospital in Boston. Last year the National Association for Music Education MENC: The National Association for Music Education, formerly called Music Educators National Conference, is an organization based out of Reston, Virginia which is focused on the advancement of music education, both as a profession and the assurance of music education as issued a statement noting that music educators should recognize music as a cause of noise-induced hearing loss noise-induced hearing loss Temporary or permanent hearing loss caused either by a single exposure to very loud sound(s) or by repeated exposure to louder sounds over an extended period. See Hearing loss. . An estimated 2 million students in the country play in middle- and high-school marching bands, along with 250,000 in college marching bands. They practice for hours at volumes intended to "fill up a football stadium," Kris Chesky of the Texas Center for Music and Medicine at the University of North Texas told USA Today. |
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