Hearing loss in professional orchestral musicians

Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics

Volumn 33 1, Issue PART 3, 2011, Pages 74-81

  Pawlaczyk Luszczynska, M ^a   Dudarewicz, A ^a   Zamojska, M ^a   Sliwinska Kowalska, M ^a  

^a NOFER INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

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