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Katherine,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Thank you soooo much for writing this! I was astonished and bewildered by that announcement. I have inserted other comments in your email below at the ###s (pound signs):</div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 05, 2008 , at 09:08, Katherine wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>On Sunday, there was an announcement at church for anyone wearing hearing aids to not have them all the way turned up as they would interfere with the sound system and cause feedback.</div> <div> </div> <div>I am an Audiologist and I feel concerned about this request, as I don't believe hearing aids have anything to do with the sound system feeding back. I have never heard of this before.</div></div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>### I absolutely agree with you. I HAVE mentioned to ushers in the past that if they hear someone's hearing aid screeching that they try to locate it and make the wearer aware--but it's certainly not a feedback problem.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>### Rachel, who was doing sound second service last Sunday (March 2), left me a note: "A member asked about a feedback problem [which I could not hear] that he has noticed before during moments of no noise. I told him to call you (Ruth) with ideas of how to stop it. It's a very high frequency that is mostly heard by the young. Some other person confirmed hearing it."</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I [Ruth] can say that during the first service I also heard a (high-frequency?) sound, but my experience is that the room often has this sound. I have heard it when I have been in the room with no equipment plugged in or turned on, and with no lights or furnace on. I believe it must have something to do with the shape of the room and perhaps all the hard surfaces. I have been aware of it's occasional appearance for several years. It goes away after a few minutes.<br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"> <div> </div> <div>I would like to make a suggestion to assist people in learning to use their hearing aids with our sound system. I would like to offer to set-up a table during coffee time after the services on some Sunday and offer to look at people's hearing aids, assist them in discovering if they have compatible technology with our sound system, and demonstrate our assistive devices to them. I can also assess the status of their hearing aids' condition as a plus. </div></div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>### This is a generous and wonderful offer. I hope we can do this! I will help however I can.<br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div> </div> <div> </div> <div>I am interested in the sound system on several levels. I believe I may be able to help in reducing the feedback that happens in the system without having to lose so much gain (volume). I have a theory that I'd like to experiment with a bit, if we can work with Ruth from sound. </div></div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>### I'm very interested in working with you and in hearing your theory. My experience in the past year is that we don't have "feedback." One exception is the following: I don't remember exactly when, but on several (maybe two to four) occasions there WAS feedback--really awful feedback--after the gong (bowl) was struck. At some point when I was preparing for the sound training I discovered that the speaker settings on the amplifier had both been turned WAY high. I returned them to their usual settings and I personally have not heard anything that I could call "feedback" since then.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I repeat, I'm very interested in working with you on this situation/question/....</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Ruth</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>copies to: Rachel Cummings, Jake Walsh, Anna Sontag</div><div> <br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div> </div> <div> </div> <div>Any input on this?</div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks,</div> <div><br>Katherine Swem</div></div><br> <br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Access mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:Access@uueugene.org">Access@uueugene.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.uueugene.org">http://www.uueugene.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.uueugene.org/mailman/listinfo/access">http://www.uueugene.org/mailman/listinfo/access</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>