When the hearing of a rock musician was tested, the results revealed a general deterioration of hearing ?
In the inner ear, there are a number of detection cells or ‘hair cells’ that each respond to a different frequency/wavelength of sound. Frequency and wavelength are two different ways of measuring the same thing. As frequency increases, wavelength decreases, and vice versa. When these hair cells are overly exposed to their particular wavelength of sound, they begin to lose function resulting in a deficiency in detecting that particular wavelength or (worse yet) lock up in their stimulated state, which results in a constant ‘ringing in the ears’ which is called tinnitus. A good analogy can be seen in radio frequencies. A cellular phone uses a very short antenna that resonates with a very short wavelength (higher frequency) signal and a CB radio uses a much longer antenna which resonates with a longer wavelength (lower frequency) signal. If you put one of each side by side, and blast them both with a high intensity of the short wavelength cell phone signal, you will likely burn out the c
