Drum db

[flutterby]

I am a choir member, Monday I was seated 2 feet behind the drums at Carnegie, the drummers waist was even with my head and the row of singers behind me made a wall effect. I was seated. I suffered extreme pain in both ears, and the left had fluid coming out. I now have little hearing in that ear. He was using pedal. How many db do you think I was getting?

 

[Greg_L]

189.4. +/- 22

 

[JLondon]

"High frequency sounds of 2-4,000 Hz are the most damaging. The uppermost octave of the piccolo is 2,048-4,096 Hz..."

It was the Piccolo.

 

[Farview]

Did you go to a doctor?

Drums are loud and can be damaging over time, but the drummer was obviously closer than you and he probably survived.

Get yourself checked out, there is no reason fluid should be coming out of your ear, even if your eardrum did rupture. Even then, there were a bunch of people around you that probably didnt have your problem. You need to get this checked out quickly.

 

[RecNewbie]

I am a choir member, Monday I was seated 2 feet behind the drums at Carnegie[/B]

Ear plugs buddy, ear plugs.
I'm a violinist and we use them all the time in the orchestra (esp. when near horns, piccolo, Eb/D clarinet - think "Sacre" -, timpani & the like), and not only in operatic productions when you are less visible...
Sometimes health takes precedence...

 

[Seafroggys]

I was on a marching drumline for years without hearing protection, and that's WAAAAY louder than a drumset. And I'm mostly fine, although occasionally ringing does happen.

If you have fluid coming out, that's something else entirely.