I've been wearing hearing aids for six and a half years. I've been to at least 7 audiologists and I thought they were all good. All of them gave me the time I wanted and none of them really helped me completely. I'm on my second pair of hearing aids and I've tried I think at least 3 different companies. After reading how successful you guys have been is great to hear about you, but a little discouraging for me. Every piano or keyboard I play sounds twangy or thinny. I also have a remote with different programs and I can compensate to some degree in making the piano or keyboard sound just "OK". But, the biggest problem for me is the pitch. I had to stop singing on jobs because I was hearing a lot of the pitches a half tone higher....very disconcerting. Quite often I think I'm playing the correct note, but I'm not. If I were hearing the pitches right I could tolerate the twangy sound I'm hearing from the keyboard. I play with a couple of big bands and sometimes cannot understand what I'm hearing.
To the best of my knowledge, hearing aids cannot fix a pitch problem.
If none of you are having that problem, which it seems none of your are, then you can sing and play your jobs with a minimum amount of discomfort.

As I said earlier, I lost a lot of work because of the pitch problem. You really can't do a single if you don't sing. There has to be some singing on a job.

I'm just about ready to stop playing completely. The frustration I'm going through is insane.

John, I'd love to meet you anytime. Didn't know you were so close.
You can email me at: osolomio@comcast.net