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The reader signed herself, Losing my hearing yet hoping to hang on to my job.

Its not the gym, she wrote in response to my recent lament about deafening health club music, but the retail establishment in which I work. The music is turned way up 24/7 and I dont understand how that translates into dollars. I have torn out your column to share with my manager.

She was one of many people who wrote to moan about the invasion of dangerously loud music in every corner of modern life.

Some echoed my lament about health clubs.

Fortunately for me, wrote Lori Kash, who belongs to a Chicago branch of the New York-based club of which Im a member, I wear hearing aids (yes, most likely due to lots of loud rock concerts many years ago) and I can turn my volume way down to a safe level or simply put them on mute. Never thought Id be in a situation in which I felt more fortunate than those with normal hearing. Thanks for getting this issue heard (pun intended).

A reader named Maggie, who described herself as an avid gym-goer, instructor and personal trainer, called the music level where she works out ridiculous.

If it were not for my home remedy of stuffing Kleenex in my ears before each and every class, I would be completely deaf, she wrote. My Zumba instructor suffers from a hoarse voice constantly.

Zumba was a recurring villain in the emails I received.

I need multiple copies of your article, wrote Jacqueline Krump. I shall politely hand them to both Zumba instructors at my health club -- my own appeals have fallen on deaf ears.

Of course her appeals have fallen on deaf ears. Any instructor who constantly listens to screaming music is at risk of hearing problems. Seriously. Gym instructors need to start defending their own hearing health.

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Stores as well as gyms need to turn down the volume