@harrison When I got married, my wife’s (non-american) aunt offered to perform a song for us at the reception. Since she was traveling 12 hours to be with us on our special day, I acquiesced. To my horror, her instrument of choice was a recorder and she did 5 songs, all with introductions as to why she was playing each one.
It was a total shit-show. All of my friends were either wide-eyed in disbelief or struggling to stifle laughter. It’s good story now, but my wife was mortified at the time and we weren’t sure the day was recoverable.
Fortunately, alcohol fixed it. As with most things.
@LaVikinga i’d like you to know that when i got into my car this morning, instead of spotify starting to play like i expected, i got this. thanks for that.
@ninjaemilee That’s fair, but I’m assuming you’re not in elementary school.
This is not to say I don’t think kids shouldn’t be allowed to explore music. Gotta learn, experiment, make mistakes. But I have to admit I prefer when that happens where I can’t hear it.
@daveinwarsh This is one of my favorite versions of this song. I’ve always loved their harmonies. When my Dad decided to get rid of all of his vinyl, I snagged all his The Brothers Four albums.
@RiotDemon Those train whistles are nice! There’s a certain chord that you can play in music that makes it sound so “trainy” that composers slide into compositions from time to time
@RiotDemon Love that guy’s videos, I find them oddly relaxing. Maybe not this one, so much, but he has a lot of these ‘show off various strange incarnations of such-and-such toy’ videos, and they’re great fun.
I used to have a neighbor with a kid who played the trombone. A lot. With the window open. I also have a (current) neighbor (on the other side of an 8’ fence but I am on the 4th floor so can see what the deal is) who puts his dogs out to bark at 5:15 am until 6am. Every. Single. Day.
I have a neighbor that’s far enough away that does that crap. Just leaves the dog out whenever. If I walk out to get the mail or take out my trash. It’s barking. If I lived closer, you bet I’d call. It’s far enough away that I don’t hear it when I’m in my bedroom or with the tv on.
I have neighbors on the other side of a concrete wall that think singing at the top of their lungs past 1am is cool. Luckily I’ve gotten better about falling asleep to noise. I’ve called the cops before, but they take forever to come out. I’m usually so tired that I end up falling asleep, so I don’t bother anymore.
I used to have a neighbor right next door that played bass so loud it rattled my couch. My roommate at the time tried to talk to them peacefully, but they insisted the bass was as low as it could go, and kept it up, for months. There was one night the roommate lost it and called the cops while he was outside… Well, when he was on the phone with dispatch, the neighbor came outside and threatened to beat the shit out of him. Dispatch heard it. Cops were here pretty quickly. They were evicted a month later. Don’t know if that had anything to do with it or not.
@RiotDemon Oddly that little cluster of houses are large (like 3000+ sf) and is a small group of people with money that live there (they probably shit bricks when this hud building went up and the new apt building next to us - they were there long before all the crap around me was on these streets). It is unlikely that anyone will follow through about dogs because of that. I did ring their doorbell once and no one answered. I then left a note in their mailbox. That worked for about 2 days. They’d put the dogs out to pee and bring them right back in. Now they are back to ignoring them for 45 min each morning. No clue why the neighbors they know aren’t complaining.
@Yoda_Daenerys Isn’t it fascinating how NOLA continues to produce such great instrumental talent across the decades?
I love NOLA - the soul of America amen
At least he’s not a heavy metal rock-star wannabe like my neighbor who likes to play his electric guitar in his one bedroom apartment below mine. He’s even had band rehearsal there with a full drum set. Nothing like 6+ hours of Metallica and the like. Thank goodness for earplugs.com. Oh, and he has a dog. A very loud dog that barks incessantly for hours when he’s tied up outside. And did I mention he likes to play video games? Loud ones.
I can’t exactly recommend the following as a solution. If you wish to consider using it, think thru the morality - you be the judge. And it only works on noisemaking teenagers. if you wish to think of this solution as “working”.
Decades ago a fairly newish couple I knew got a new duplex and moved in together. The pair could perhaps be considered “enthusiastic” and “sporty”. They both worked third shift and tended to sleep until early evening.
A few weeks later the empty other side of the duplex rented to a mom and her 15 year old son. She worked until perhaps 6-7pm each evening.
The teenager had an enormous drumset. Possibly because it took up space, his mom let him have the master bedroom, which was separated by a thin wall from their bedroom.
He used to come home from school every day and practice the drums.
They talked to him about it several times. He told them his mom forbade him from practicing when she was home.
They talked to the mom, more than once, explaining how he was practiced during their sleep hours and could he just start a bit later. She said no because she couldn’t stand to listen to it, so if he was going to practice it would have to be between 3-6pm or so after school. The landlord happened to be in Europe for a few months. They really liked the place and the cost and didn’t want to move.
So … since he was waking them up at 3-4 every afternoon and made it impossible to think or read or use the bedroom for quiet things, they decided to use it for noisy things. As noisily and as enthusiastically as possible. Once they were done they would play really loud music, whatever they thought he hated, in their bedroom.
Funny thing, his drum set would be quiet for long intervals when they were busy being enthusiastic. So they started taping their sessions on cassette tape. They waited until they had several months worth of tapes. Then they moved into the other bedroom further away and set up the various cassettes on a timer along with assorted music, to play in the master bedroom.
And they kept making tapes, to keep it fresh for the teenager.
He started practicing somewhat less diligently.
Finally his Mom was home early one day and they didn’t know. She heard the tapes playing they the wall. She complained to them. They pointed out that she had ignored their complaints when they needed to sleep, and it was their bedroom anyway.
She went to the landlord. He wouldn’t take her complaint seriously - she had not told the landlord about the drum set when she signed the rental agreement. The landlord did work out a deal with the mom to let her trade up from the duplex to renting a house he owned that needed a tenant.
The felt that they had not caused permanent harm to the teenager, except, possibly, to his future as a drummer.
Not something I would do; but .,. I could kinda see how some people might choose to respond that way.
Incidentally, before the drumset provocation, they had tried to be kinda private. During the height of the “sound battles”, they said they had a lot of fun.
@RiotDemon I have both. I can attest that the saxophone is much louder and when you are horribly out of practice (bad embouchure), sounds remarkably like a sick barking dog.
I couldn’t figure out why the one neighbor kid just never seemed to learn the clarinet (it’s been going on 2 years now), only to find out that house apparently teaches clarinet lessons, and has lessons going around the time I get home from work. Must be a horrible teacher.
I guess my biggest issue is that at first I thought I was hearing things. I would mute the tv, and then there would be no noise. So I’d turn the tv back up, then he’d whistle again.
Always twice in a row. Phwee phweeee. Then a long pause. For HOURS. Only in the afternoon. I guess I could just leave my dog outside to bark at him, but her bark is probably more annoying, lol
I need to be a Scottish aristocrat living in a castle fortress that’s about 800 years old (maintained with someone else’s money) and get piped awake each morning.
Oh yeah, that castle better have modern heating and plumbing.
@f00l Just a weird little town in MD. I just sort of happen to be wedged by this open chunk of space where, among other things, the town bagpiper tends to perform.
@f00l Rather than live next door to a piper, support your local Celtic rock band, in performance at the best pubs nationwide. Here’s one of mine; the piper used to be in the YouTube video above. Scotfests are their primary nesting grounds. https://www.rathkeltair.com/
This is why I moved to a semi rural area. Well that and the 479 dollar mortgage. Plenty of space to not hear anybody else’s noise. And plenty of space for them to not hear mine.
@PlacidPenguin my house was 95k. Orig built in 1900, gutted to the studs new hvac, new plumbing, new electrical in 1994. Literally all I have done is cosmetic stuff.
@PlacidPenguin then I deserve a neighborhood of whistling kids… we used to explode ants with magnifying glasses… which seemed soooooo cool when I was a kid, and horrifies me now…
Metal or plastic?
@PlacidPenguin not sure. I meant to search videos of whistles to try and figure it out.
I’m not about to go ask.
@RiotDemon
If you change your mind and ask, let me know the response (only if it’s the type of whistle).
at least it’s not a recorder
@harrison
Fun instrument.
@harrison
@brhfl
@brhfl I had no idea that was possible.
@harrison hey man, I love my recorder. I have much better instruments I can play, but it’s fun to get ye old recorder out sometimes.
@brhfl she must of really liked 4th grade
@harrison I think this one is my favorite:
@harrison When I got married, my wife’s (non-american) aunt offered to perform a song for us at the reception. Since she was traveling 12 hours to be with us on our special day, I acquiesced. To my horror, her instrument of choice was a recorder and she did 5 songs, all with introductions as to why she was playing each one.
It was a total shit-show. All of my friends were either wide-eyed in disbelief or struggling to stifle laughter. It’s good story now, but my wife was mortified at the time and we weren’t sure the day was recoverable.
Fortunately, alcohol fixed it. As with most things.
@harrison Better with the visual addition:
@ACraigL
And you have a most excellent story.
@LaVikinga i’d like you to know that when i got into my car this morning, instead of spotify starting to play like i expected, i got this. thanks for that.
@ninjaemilee That’s fair, but I’m assuming you’re not in elementary school.
This is not to say I don’t think kids shouldn’t be allowed to explore music. Gotta learn, experiment, make mistakes. But I have to admit I prefer when that happens where I can’t hear it.
@harrison yeah I got you. I’m a musician so I tend to not be bothered by it so much. I’m just happy when someone is interested in learning.
@harrison It’s kinda addictive, isn’t it?
My deepest condolences.
I guess you’ll be needing one of these. I’d recommend smarties or pez for bait- not sticky when you have to clean them up.
The Goat Curse begins!
The kid is a whistleblower?
Hear The Whistle Blow A Hundred Miles - Foggy Mountain Boys
@daveinwarsh This is one of my favorite versions of this song. I’ve always loved their harmonies. When my Dad decided to get rid of all of his vinyl, I snagged all his The Brothers Four albums.
/giphy whistle while you work
I dunno what’s worse. A whistle or a group of kids screaming to mimic whistling since they don’t have real whistles.
@lisaviolet They’re both worse.
Ok, I watched over 7 minutes of a guy testing different whistles.
3:30 is the most accurate.
I actually love the two train whistles at the beginning.
@RiotDemon Can’t watch, cats going nuts.
@lisaviolet the video I watched prior to that one was a bunch of more main stream whistles. My cats didn’t like it.
@RiotDemon the little airplane was cool. Sorta biased, I suppose
@RiotDemon Those train whistles are nice! There’s a certain chord that you can play in music that makes it sound so “trainy” that composers slide into compositions from time to time
@RiotDemon Love that guy’s videos, I find them oddly relaxing. Maybe not this one, so much, but he has a lot of these ‘show off various strange incarnations of such-and-such toy’ videos, and they’re great fun.
@brhfl I watched a few more since you mentioned liking him. Now I’m subscribed.
@RiotDemon
Mee too. He’s fun.
Trade them something better and quite for it, something g their parents would have no reason to object to.
@moondrake Like this?
/image Fisher Price popper
It could be worse. It could have been a drum set.
@mfladd
Someone got me a 17" plush of Animal 2 years ago for my birthday.
@mfladd It was the worse one for me - that’s why I’m house-hunting.
/giphy kid drum set
Hehehe…my great nephew mighhht just have gotten an emergency whistle in his stocking! Some might say payback is a bitch and so is his great aunt!
@mikibell
Except, you must not like your niece/nephew.
What a loving aunt.
Does that have a mirror inside along with a tiny compartment?
Got a few in 2005 from Duracell.
@PlacidPenguin my husband’s nephew bought each of my children THE noisiest toys…now he has a kid of his own! I warned him his day would come…
Why on God’s green earth does a sit and spin need lights and music?
Mirror, yes…Not sure about the compartment…will have to take my son’s whistle apart to see…
@mikibell
The better question is, why don’t Sit N Bounces have lights and noise?
/image sit n bounce
Give him a bag of bubble gum. The colored gumball kind, so he can leave it all over his bed and trash cans and shoes.
I used to have a neighbor with a kid who played the trombone. A lot. With the window open. I also have a (current) neighbor (on the other side of an 8’ fence but I am on the 4th floor so can see what the deal is) who puts his dogs out to bark at 5:15 am until 6am. Every. Single. Day.
@Kidsandliz I’d call animal control. That’s ridiculous.
I have a neighbor that’s far enough away that does that crap. Just leaves the dog out whenever. If I walk out to get the mail or take out my trash. It’s barking. If I lived closer, you bet I’d call. It’s far enough away that I don’t hear it when I’m in my bedroom or with the tv on.
I have neighbors on the other side of a concrete wall that think singing at the top of their lungs past 1am is cool. Luckily I’ve gotten better about falling asleep to noise. I’ve called the cops before, but they take forever to come out. I’m usually so tired that I end up falling asleep, so I don’t bother anymore.
I used to have a neighbor right next door that played bass so loud it rattled my couch. My roommate at the time tried to talk to them peacefully, but they insisted the bass was as low as it could go, and kept it up, for months. There was one night the roommate lost it and called the cops while he was outside… Well, when he was on the phone with dispatch, the neighbor came outside and threatened to beat the shit out of him. Dispatch heard it. Cops were here pretty quickly. They were evicted a month later. Don’t know if that had anything to do with it or not.
@Kidsandliz i played the trombone, and i’m thinking about taking it up again
@Yoda_Daenerys Umm not in my backyard please… : )
@RiotDemon Oddly that little cluster of houses are large (like 3000+ sf) and is a small group of people with money that live there (they probably shit bricks when this hud building went up and the new apt building next to us - they were there long before all the crap around me was on these streets). It is unlikely that anyone will follow through about dogs because of that. I did ring their doorbell once and no one answered. I then left a note in their mailbox. That worked for about 2 days. They’d put the dogs out to pee and bring them right back in. Now they are back to ignoring them for 45 min each morning. No clue why the neighbors they know aren’t complaining.
@Yoda_Daenerys @Kidsandliz I could get used to this:
/youtube Trombone Shorty
@compunaut this guy blows real good
@Yoda_Daenerys Isn’t it fascinating how NOLA continues to produce such great instrumental talent across the decades?
I love NOLA - the soul of America amen
@RiotDemon
I am so sorry. Perhaps child will grow tired of this quickly? Perhaps the child could “lose” the whistle?
Perhaps you could soundproof your bedroom or your sleep in some way? So they make earplugs that let you sleep thru noise?
Have you considered deafness as a lifestyle alternative?
At least he’s not a heavy metal rock-star wannabe like my neighbor who likes to play his electric guitar in his one bedroom apartment below mine. He’s even had band rehearsal there with a full drum set. Nothing like 6+ hours of Metallica and the like. Thank goodness for earplugs.com. Oh, and he has a dog. A very loud dog that barks incessantly for hours when he’s tied up outside. And did I mention he likes to play video games? Loud ones.
I can’t exactly recommend the following as a solution. If you wish to consider using it, think thru the morality - you be the judge. And it only works on noisemaking teenagers. if you wish to think of this solution as “working”.
Decades ago a fairly newish couple I knew got a new duplex and moved in together. The pair could perhaps be considered “enthusiastic” and “sporty”. They both worked third shift and tended to sleep until early evening.
A few weeks later the empty other side of the duplex rented to a mom and her 15 year old son. She worked until perhaps 6-7pm each evening.
The teenager had an enormous drumset. Possibly because it took up space, his mom let him have the master bedroom, which was separated by a thin wall from their bedroom.
He used to come home from school every day and practice the drums.
They talked to him about it several times. He told them his mom forbade him from practicing when she was home.
They talked to the mom, more than once, explaining how he was practiced during their sleep hours and could he just start a bit later. She said no because she couldn’t stand to listen to it, so if he was going to practice it would have to be between 3-6pm or so after school. The landlord happened to be in Europe for a few months. They really liked the place and the cost and didn’t want to move.
So … since he was waking them up at 3-4 every afternoon and made it impossible to think or read or use the bedroom for quiet things, they decided to use it for noisy things. As noisily and as enthusiastically as possible. Once they were done they would play really loud music, whatever they thought he hated, in their bedroom.
Funny thing, his drum set would be quiet for long intervals when they were busy being enthusiastic. So they started taping their sessions on cassette tape. They waited until they had several months worth of tapes. Then they moved into the other bedroom further away and set up the various cassettes on a timer along with assorted music, to play in the master bedroom.
And they kept making tapes, to keep it fresh for the teenager.
He started practicing somewhat less diligently.
Finally his Mom was home early one day and they didn’t know. She heard the tapes playing they the wall. She complained to them. They pointed out that she had ignored their complaints when they needed to sleep, and it was their bedroom anyway.
She went to the landlord. He wouldn’t take her complaint seriously - she had not told the landlord about the drum set when she signed the rental agreement. The landlord did work out a deal with the mom to let her trade up from the duplex to renting a house he owned that needed a tenant.
The felt that they had not caused permanent harm to the teenager, except, possibly, to his future as a drummer.
Not something I would do; but .,. I could kinda see how some people might choose to respond that way.
Incidentally, before the drumset provocation, they had tried to be kinda private. During the height of the “sound battles”, they said they had a lot of fun.
BECAUSESESESESESESESESESESESE
Have you thought of taking up the saxophone?
It’s a very soulful instrument.
@2many2no I have a clarinet. It sounds like a dying duck since I’m so out of practice.
@RiotDemon I have both. I can attest that the saxophone is much louder and when you are horribly out of practice (bad embouchure), sounds remarkably like a sick barking dog.
Most disturbing.
/giphy barking sax
@2many2no
Wonder if Clinton still plays.
Didn’t he play sax?
Oooh. Sax!!! The instrument that will lure you into sin and sex!
@f00l @2many2no
/youtube Animaniacs Bill Clinton sax
/image Animaniacs Bill Clinton sax
@PlacidPenguin
I couldn’t figure out why the one neighbor kid just never seemed to learn the clarinet (it’s been going on 2 years now), only to find out that house apparently teaches clarinet lessons, and has lessons going around the time I get home from work. Must be a horrible teacher.
@Nuurgle
Perhaps all the kids give up after 2 weeks and it’s always new kids.
@Nuurgle haha, I just mentioned above that I have a clarinet. It doesn’t sound very good since I’m almost 20 years out of practice.
Be glad this guy isn’t your neighbor…
@daveinwarsh that sounds like something I would do someday…
I love his grin as he’s walking back to the camera at the end of the clip.
@daveinwarsh
Some people really need to be in the country.
Looks fun tho.
I hope his setup used duct tape somewhere in the design.
@daveinwarsh He needs to live in a lighthouse
@daveinwarsh wow. Sounds nice.
I guess my biggest issue is that at first I thought I was hearing things. I would mute the tv, and then there would be no noise. So I’d turn the tv back up, then he’d whistle again.
Always twice in a row. Phwee phweeee. Then a long pause. For HOURS. Only in the afternoon. I guess I could just leave my dog outside to bark at him, but her bark is probably more annoying, lol
I suppose I need to listen to the tv louder.
@RiotDemon or get a louder whistle?
@luvche21 or just play the really long whistle video at full blast with the windows open. That’ll be fun!
@RiotDemon
You would inspire him. Think that thru before you do it.
He might wind up becoming a whistle collector.
@f00l damn. Good point.
Metal music it is then.
@RiotDemon
You might inspire him there, too.
But possibly you don’t mind doing that.
@RiotDemon Then you have to listen to it too…
I’d rather be the one practicing an instrument than listening to someone practice an instrument.
@RiotDemon You need some Celtic rock. With bagpipes. Try this, and turn it UP:
@OldCatLady know why bagpipers are always walking?
To get away from that fucking noise.
@pfarro1
@OldCatLady
I need to be a Scottish aristocrat living in a castle fortress that’s about 800 years old (maintained with someone else’s money) and get piped awake each morning.
Oh yeah, that castle better have modern heating and plumbing.
@f00l piped awake each morning?? leaving that alone!
@f00l Once it warms up and we start having more goings-on in my town, I will regularly be bagpiped out of my slumber. A weird reality of where I live.
@brhfl
Where do you live? Do they have a town or courthouse clock that plays the bagpipes?
@OldCatLady
I could live next door to this guy.
BagpipeMaster.com
@f00l Just a weird little town in MD. I just sort of happen to be wedged by this open chunk of space where, among other things, the town bagpiper tends to perform.
@f00l I totally misread that as an outhouse that plays the bagpipes. That might cover up some embarrassing noises when company is around tho.
@f00l Rather than live next door to a piper, support your local Celtic rock band, in performance at the best pubs nationwide. Here’s one of mine; the piper used to be in the YouTube video above. Scotfests are their primary nesting grounds.
https://www.rathkeltair.com/
@OldCatLady
http://www.dallasobserver.com/music/texas-10-best-irish-themed-bands-8118777
Found this. I usually don’t do festivals and clubs due to time, $, crowds, and general misanthropy.
But once in a while…
This is why I moved to a semi rural area. Well that and the 479 dollar mortgage. Plenty of space to not hear anybody else’s noise. And plenty of space for them to not hear mine.
@pfarro1 if land wasn’t so expensive here, I’d do that. I’ll probably have to move out of state for the property that would be ideal.
@pfarro1
state or region? Nearest big city?
@f00l Illinois. I’m 65 miles west of Chicago. Very close to Northern Illinois university.
@f00l a nice house needing a few updates goes for 100k. 200 buys you 4-5 beds with everything on some land. 300 gets you a palace on acreage.
@pfarro1
I know countless people who would be completely envious.
In my area of NY, though I don’t live in NYC, pricing is ridiculous.
@PlacidPenguin my house was 95k. Orig built in 1900, gutted to the studs new hvac, new plumbing, new electrical in 1994. Literally all I have done is cosmetic stuff.
@pfarro1
Little higher than that here. If I went out to a small semi-rural town that would be about right.
Sounds wonderful; except for perhaps the winters.
@f00l winters clearly suck. But it gives me an excuse to cook and read and generally not venture out of my house without looking completely antisocial
@pfarro1 I’ve refurbed 2 older homes: once in St Charles, MO (W of St Louis); once here in DFW area. Each was < $50K, but both needed plenty of TLC
it’s called Karma
@SebastianSoul I didn’t know I was a terrible human being, but, cool.
@RiotDemon
You must have stepped on a bug as a kid.
@PlacidPenguin then I deserve a neighborhood of whistling kids… we used to explode ants with magnifying glasses… which seemed soooooo cool when I was a kid, and horrifies me now…
@mikibell
That could be arranged…
No. I think I’m resist.
@SebastianSoul @RiotDemon jeez I can’t wait for my eternal reward. I’m probably coming back as one of those ants to be exploded.
@pfarro1
Optimist.
@f00l I didn’t say it was only going to happen once.