Noise exposure of opera musicians

Canadian Acoustics - Acoustique Canadienne

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 11-16

  MacDonald, Ewen N ^a   Behar, Alberto ^a   Wong, Willy ^a   Kunov, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; AUDITION;

EXPOSURE LEVELS; HEARING LOSS; NEW STUDIES; NOISE EXPOSURES; NOISE INDUCED HEARING LOSS; ORCHESTRA PITS;

NOISE POLLUTION;

EID: 60349120560     PISSN: 07116659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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