Music, Singing, Piano/Guitar - what can I expect with CI’s? Hearing Preservation?

[bcarp]

Hi DoctorNo,

Have a look at my post here. I think it answers quite a few of your questions:

Music and Cochlear Implants

I have pitch recognition through the cochlear if I listen really carefully and the notes are distinct and about half an octave apart. Less than that & it’s tricky. Certainly, the nuances of an ensemble playing together with the notes mashed together is not possible. When I had a hybrid acoustic/electric component for a few months, it was better but still not perfect. I definitely don’t have enough pitch definition to play an unfretted instrument like a cello. Even piano would be hard, but I cou…

The summary is that the CI is useless for music playing. I have a unilateral Cochlear CI622 implant with Nucleus 7 processor, which was implanted by the surgeon with a Cochlear company technician in the room with live monitoring of the array during implantation.