Protect your hearing
Audiological assessments and custom-made hearing protection for musicians
If you’re a musician, you face a higher risk of hearing loss than average because of your regular exposure to loud noise. Once it happens the effects are irreversible, and can have a serious impact on your career and wider life.
Our Musicians Hearing Health Scheme is here to help, providing heavily discounted hearing tests and custom earplugs that mean musicians can protect their hearing for the long-term.
The service is open to anybody who meets our working musician eligibility criteria, which you can find here. To qualify, you must have earned 40% of your income from music over the 24 months before applying.
The scheme is currently paused, but will re-open soon. To be notified when it does, please use the sign-up form below.
Why should you get your hearing tested?
Hearing is a basic tool for most musicians, but it is fragile and at risk of being damaged by the work they do — research shows that musicians suffer noise-induced hearing loss more than the general population
It is very difficult to spot the early signs of hearing loss, so it’s worth having a regular, ideally annual, hearing test.
Typically only some frequencies go, so things don’t get quieter, it’s just that some sounds get less distinct.
Remember, noise-induced hearing loss is 100% preventable and 100% irreversible.
Watch: Everything Everything drummer Mike Spearman tries the process for himself
Partners
Musicians’ Union is a Trade Union representing over 30,000 professional musicians of all genres of music who work across the whole of the music industry.
The MU is a respected organisation who works to champion the causes of musicians as well as offering invaluable advice, support and guidance for individuals. For musicians, it is all about the music. For the MU, it’s all about the musician.
The ISM Members Fund, the sister charity of the Independent Society of Musicians (ISM), has provided help and support to members or former members of the ISM and their dependents since 1917. Members can access a range of mental, physical and financial services through the Fund to benefit their health and wellbeing. This includes counselling services, physiotherapy and financial support.