Looking for Success Stories from Piano Players

[Mister Muso]

I'm really keen to hear from any piano players here who had to stop at the onset of tinnitus or hyperacusis, and were able to return to playing again after a period of recovery.

If you returned to it, were you able to play anything you wanted, or just quiet pieces? Do you still rely on ear plugs for protection from a recurrence?

As someone who had only just got my love back for playing the instrument again, a few weeks before struck by tinnitus and hyperacusis, this has been one of most difficult aspects of my situation for me.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Mister Muso]

Let's open this thread up to other musicians as well as piano players.

I've seen posts from a couple of drummers who have been able to still play, probably electronic drums I think. And singers too. We all love what we do, and we'll all have had challenges to face as a result of our afflictions.

 

[James Brown]

In my first years of tinnitus I listened to a lot of music. I have a good hi-fi set with a Sonus Faber Grand Piano speakers and one thing I noticed by that time was when I was not in a good day the sound of piano's high notes messed with a light hyperacusis I had in those days.

I like a solo CD from Chucho Valdes Live in New York where the piano is amazingly recorded. When he hit the higher notes my ear felt strange.

In those days I was not very aware of what hyperacusis was. Unfortunately today I know better, God I really know. Nowadays my hyperacusis is so bad I had to give up listening to music on a hi-fi set or I have to listen at a moderate sound level.