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...while you are practicing?

I have two children, so I am usual playing with all type of noises. But there is one noise wich I cannot bear.

When the washing machine finishes its work, makes a intermittent high noise for two minutes. I can hear it from my room. I could get up and turn off the washing machine, but the most times I would like to ignore this noise and carry on playing.

But I cannot do that. Finaly, I have to get up and turn off the washing machine, so stopping my practice.

I hate it.

My wife's cat Squeaky, which is about 95% deaf. She can hear very high pitches, but that's all. When I play, she is attracted to the sound or maybe the vibration. She sits in the hallway and meows very loud, much as a deaf person might talk too loud because they are not aware of the volume of their voice. It drives me nuts. The only solution is to pick her up and console her for a minute or two, then place her on the stool by the piano. She'll sit there quietly then until I finish practicing.

What we go through for our pets!

Sam

Doorbell or knock on the door

Ooh! I know exactly what you are talking about. I can ignore all kinds of noise, except for our rice cooker. When it finishes, it makes a high-pitched digital beeping noise, and the blasted thing has to beep 10 times!! Plus, it's about as loud as a jack-hammer! It is the worst noise ever, it must be just the right pitch to be like an aural-dagger straight into my brain.

cartoons & football...can't stand the sound of either one.

Man busking with bagpipes.
he makes the same mistake every time in the same song.
I always end up listening when he gets near that point just to see if he has finally got it right.
He never does.

My two dogs always start wrestling and growling around at each other. I thought it was because they were bothered by my playing, but a friend told me she thinks they are just dancing to the lovely music I play....

"Mom?.... Mom?..... Mooooooommmmmmm?????..... MOM! Hey, Mom! Where are you?!?...." ["Just a minute, honey, I'm trying to finish this piece."] [Five milliseconds pass by.] "Mom?... Are you done yet? Mom?? MOM!??"

the sound of my dog squeaking his awful squeaky toys.. and children, children talking/yelling as they walk down my street.. why do the girls have to screech like that? and why does it always sound like they are being murdered when the boys are just chasing them with worms in their hands.. i always get up to look just in case they are hurt or being kidnapped or something.. which is extra annoying..

but then again, really those children annoy me any time of day, not just practice time.. and i hardly ever let my dog have his squeaky toys anymore.. i think its the high pitched-ness of both of those sounds.. i hate most high pitched things..

"Daddy ..."

Doof, doof, doof from a few houses away.

The timer on the stove. It goes off 1 minute before it is done, as a "signal", and then beeps repeatedly every 30 seconds til someone turns it off.

Competition from my son's drum kit...he just cannot keep to the same rhythm ;(

I never thought about it before but I don't think any noise bothers me while I'm playing. I guess if there was an earthquake and the house started making annoying noises as it fell apart around me that might get to me.

no squeaking dogs, cats, childs and washing machines here I can easily imagine them being on the top of the list

But in their absence, my main annoyance is squeaking pedals and buzzes from some piano notes. I'm very happy to have that squeek in the pedal resolved

Next in line is the fridge that makes some humming noise. Close the door to the kitchen helps, and next is turning the fridge off (particularly when making a recording)

The sound of my wife breathing. It goes in and out and in and out and in ................it's just never ending.

crippy

Airplanes! They always decide to take off or land at the airport nearby when I'm in the middle of recording a piece. Then I have to start over again, because you can hear them really well inside my apartment. But it is handy living 5 minutes from the airpot

Garden tools!!!!! I live in a neighbourhood of multi-unit buildings, & most have tiny gardens cared for by gardening companies that can spend hours grooming a narrow strip of mostly shrubbery with weed-eaters, leaf-blowers, etc. And right next door to me, the only building with lawn (again, a tiny, tiny patch) is cared for by either the manager or owner, with all of the above, plus an ancient gas mower that sounds like it has rocks in its motor. The buzzing & rattling can go on for hours!!

"Honey, did you remember to . . . ?"

The door bell. It simply cannot be ignored... my dogs make sure of that! The UPS man, whom my wife likes to summon, almost daily since she learned to shop online, likes to drop the goods and ring the doorbell- leaving me with barking dogs, until I get up and retrieve the package.