Protect your hearing
Audiological assessments and custom-made hearing protection for musicians
Noise-induced hearing loss is 100% irreversible but 100% preventable.
Help Musicians can provide heavily discounted audiological assessments and custom-made hearing protection.
Please note that we will be pausing applications to this scheme after 5pm on Friday 19 December. Musicians who apply and are approved before then will be able to book an appointment.
If you require hearing health support, you can contact the following organisations, who may be able to help:
- Musician’s Hearing Services: Comprehensive hearing care for musicians and other music professionals
- Hearology: Comprehensive hearing care for musicians and other music professionals
- ACS Custom: Custom-fit in-ear monitors and earplugs
- Cosmic Ears: Custom-fit in-ear monitors and earplugs
- Read Audio: Custom-fit in-ear monitors and earplugs
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
Research
Of a 2015 survey of 693 professional musicians of all genres:
Further to this, 39% of respondents believed that hearing loss was an unavoidable effect of working as a musician, and 16% thought that hearing protection would be too expensive.
Our aim is to make hearing protection an affordable and essential part of a musician’s toolkit.
Partners
Musicians’ Hearing Services specialise in all aspects of hearing to enhance your listening pleasure and communication in everyday life.
They have been serving the entertainment industry for 25 years, so whether you want advice or impressions for in-ear monitors and musicians hearing protection, or hearing tests and advice on tinnitus or hearing loss call 020 7486 1053.
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.