Re: overtone tinnitus? ("Richard H." )

Subject: Re: overtone tinnitus?
From:    "Richard H."  <auditory(at)AUGMENTICS.COM>
Date:    Tue, 18 May 2004 18:13:36 +0100

Hi,

 Sounds like monaural diplacusis, where a cochlear non-linearity introduces harmonics.

 regards,

 Richard (UK)



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> From: "Julius Verrel" <Julius.Verrel(at)UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
> To: <AUDITORY(at)LISTS.MCGILL.CA>
> Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 11:10 AM
> Subject: overtone tinnitus?
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> Dear all,
>
> a friend of mine, a piano teacher, recently had a temporary "tinnitus"
> experience which I'd like to know more about (and I hope it is
> interesting for at least some of you).
>
> It was actually temporary in a double sense: First, it fortunately
> disappeared after two days. Second, it was only present together with
> other sounds (speech, music, cars), and apparently always constituted
> one or more of the overtones of this sound. It first occured while F.
> was attending to high overtones (around c4) while a pupil of his was
> playing low notes - apparently he couldn't swich off this "attention"
> afterwards.
>
> as far as I understand it, tinnitus usually denotes a nervous
> phenomenon, essentially independent of acoustic input. we wondered
> whether this "overtone tinnitus" was rather a very low-level
> phenomenon, maybe involving outer hair cells.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
>
>
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