KBB-Forum 2018 , Cilt 17, Sayı 4

ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF WIND INSTRUMENTS ON VOICE QUALITY

Birgul TUHANİOGLU 1, MD; Sanem Okşan ERKAN 1, MD;
1Adana Şehir Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Kulak Burun Boğaz, Adana, Turkey Background: In this study, we aimed to perform vocal analysis with objective and subjective parameters in wind instrumentalists and to compare the results with a control group.

Methods: The study included 30 musicians who had regularly used a wind instrument for at least 1 year. The control group consisted of 30 healthy subjects who had never played a wind instrument. Subjective and objective voice analyses were performed for both groups.

Results: VHI-10, a subjective parameter, and F0 and HNR, two objective parameters, were higher, and jitter % and shimmer %, which are perturbation parameters, were lower in the study group compared with the control group.

Conclusion: Wind instruments cause changes in the objective and subjective parameters of vocal analysis. Vocal symptoms of the wind instrumentalists were increased, but improvements in the objective parameters of the vocal analyses were detected. Keywords : Wind instruments; voice analysis; subjective; objective