Coherent distinguishing of aural sensations. See also "ear-training"
Questions tagged [hearing]
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Why does music seem to transpose when I yawn?
You might have experienced this a few times : when you listen to music and yawn, what you hear seems to transpose slightly.
Why does this happen?
I'm thinking it could be the tension of the eardrum that changes and leads to different vibrations.
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How can we sing in tune, given a perfect ear for music, if we always hear ourselves lower than we actually sound?
According to this BBC article, we hear ourselves bassy compared to how we sound to others.
What makes a recording of our voice sound so different... and awful? It’s because when you speak you hear your own voice in two different ways. Greg Foot…
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Does hearing fatigue?
Sometimes everything sounds terrible to my ears. Lacking of high end or ear piercing (or both a same time). After few days after stopping practicing everything goes back to normal. Does my hearing fatigue or it is something wrong with my ears?
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What deviations to musical notes are human ears capable of differentiating?
The frequency of the A440 or Stuttgart pitch is 440 Hz. I wonder to what extent people are able to differentiate between the correct pitch height and increasingly further deviations from this standard. I'm looking for academic studies that lay out…
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Hearing Aids for Music
I have a hearing condition called Enlarged Vestibular Aqueduct, which causes just slight hearing loss for me. I'm getting hearing aids next week.
I play the violin, piano, and clarinet, and I have difficulty playing music by ear. Is it possible…
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Are musicians better than nonmusicians at learning echolocation?
Is there any evidence that musicians are faster than non-musicians at learning the skill of echo-location, i.e. the technique of navigating a physical environment by making tongue clicks and listening to the sound reflected from objects in the…
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Hearing overlapping sound
When I sing/hum lets say C note and then play on a piano a C note too, the sound I hear overlap so that I can immediately know if its the same note or not.
I want to know if everyone can do this and why does the sound overlap?? if it does overlap…
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