On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 01:34:10 -0600, "Marty"
wrote:


"Edward Green" wrote in message
roups.com...

Very loud music has recently been implicated in collapsed lungs. This
occurs after a small tear in the lung sac allows air into the chest
cavity, which tear can be in turn be caused by gut thumping bass.


Sounds like a job for Myth Busters

As a sound tech, I have had the opportunity to stand in front of some very
large sub cabinets. These buggers would blow your clothes similar to having
your back to a 40mph+ wind.

I have an old Fender Super Twin Reverb concert amp with 395 watts of
peak music power out. 195 watts RMS. (6, 6L6s) I can guarantee when
it's cranked it'll snap your pant legs like a blast out of an air hose
when you pop a low E string.

No collapsed lungs after this many years, but it will give you an
upset stomach with too many low notes. At that power level I used to
wear headphones.

They have left welts on my legs from my jeans snapping on my skin, but I
never lost a lung tho.

What say?? Speak up.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com


Marty