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Atom Play Safe Week

For this year's Play Safe Week, Access to Music (ATM) and Don't Lose The Music have joined forces to make sure every ATM student knows how to protect his or her hearing.

If you are a musician, DJ or working behind the scenes in the music business, your ears are your trade.  Make sure you know how to protect them.

On this site you can:

If you are an ATM student, during Play Safe Week:

  • you should receive information on rehearsing and recording sensibly.
  • you can take part in a competition to win a set of professional earplugs, by guessing the dB levels of everyday sounds.
  • you should try to watch the CNN 'Music Room' documentary about hearing damage which has been sent to your centre.  
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And here's what the lucky students at the British Academy of New Music in Newham, London have in store.  On Tuesday 17 October 2006 the Don't Lose The Music squad will be out in force at the Academy.  The Squad will be testing the sound levels of students' MP3 players and noise levels in their practice areas to see if they're putting themselves at risk from premature hearing damage.

Play Safe organiser, Jono Heale, said: "Musicians are particularly vulnerable and we need this week to raise awareness about how our students can protect their hearing from damage.  We issue earplugs at all Access to Music centres and encourage students to wear them when rehearsing, recording and performing, or even attending gigs."

Click here to visit the Access to Music website.