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Noise from a CELLO????? Isn't that sort of an oxymoron?? I'd be delighted if a cello player moved into my building!
Is there any chance of the screaming children family moving out in the near future?? Doesn't sound like you could get anyone worse below you.

I'm on the 3rd & top floor of the building. A family with some (more than 1) children just bought the ground floor suite. But they don't scream (so far). The fellow next to them has his buddies over to play poker on the patio in the summer, but they've never been rowdy enough to bother me, though I usually know when they're there. The woman below me plays piano, has played for years, which is fine, but sometimes she sings, too. Her singing is somewhat less fine, but I barely hear it except in the summer when everyone's doors & windows are open. Really, my only noise complaint is leaf blowers & other assorted noisy, polluting gadgets used by the companies that maintain the (tiny!) garden areas of the buildings on my street. At times, they make it impossible to practice. Car alarms are another irritation. Oh, & people walking back to their cars when the restaurant/pub at the corner closes - from the conversations I hear, I'm sure they have no idea how much sound is amplified late at night. Sometimes I hear way too much information.

Much better the screams of children playing than the screams of someone being abused. When we lived more toward the inner city, we would often hear the woman across the street screaming things such as, "Oh God... you're going to kill me! HELP!! Oh Help." And horrible, horrible language from the guy yelling at the woman and her child. We called the police several times, but when they showed up, the woman would come to the door and say nothing was wrong. I was so relieved to move away from there. And now the sound of people just living their normal lives, no matter how noisy, doesn't bother me much at all.

I agree, MaryBee, children playing is a wonderful sound. & one thing I forgot to mention in my immediate surroundings is the Philippine 7th Day Adventist Church a couple of doors down - on Saturdays, after worship, people hand around & socialize for pretty much the rest of the afternoon. I think they have a potluck lunch inside the hall, but unless it's pouring rain, it always overflows out the front door. Kids race up & down the sidewalk & small strips of lawn laughing & shrieking, while their parents stand in groups laughing & chatting. I love the "noise" they make.

That must've been awful, listening to peoples' fights - I hear the occasional argument in the street, but nothing that sounds like it's going to escalate.

In Vancouver, the inner city is prime real estate (& it gets more expensive every time the price of gas goes up!) The shortage of affordable housing here is atrocious - lots of street people. I'm lucky I bought where I did - close enough to downtown, but not surrounded by glass towers - when I did. It's an old building, but it's been maintained & it means I have enough space for my upright piano (never a grand though )

Well, it depends...
If it lasts a reasonable amount of time, and it consists in a resonable kind of "noise", and I am doing nothing of important, yes it could be an acceptable sound.

If it lasts for *hours*, consisting in jumping and running inside the apartment shaking the wall of the upper and lower floor, with additionally shouting and crying while I am trying to study for job interviews this could be really irritating.

I like children, but usally I like the children if I like the parents of these children.

Anyway I agree that earing people fighting and especially women frightned to death by their husbands is one of the worst "sound" one could experience.

A.

Here are a few pics of my piano room at home:






And of my biggest fan:

morodienne.. that is gorgeous! (is it a petrof?)

Thanks! Yes, it was imported I think in the 80s and the person who had ordered from the dealer could not get it to fit it in his house, so the dealer was stuck with it for many years. I got a great deal on it!

Now, I just need a concert hall big enough to do it justice. Maybe with our next house we'll be out in the country and can convert a barn into a recital hall.

That sure beats the heck out of my previous teacher's little upright!

I used to teach on it when I taught from the home, and people really enjoyed it. I do have a nice Yamaha grand, but it's not quite as big

morodienne.. i keep coming back to look at your pictures.. they really resonate. your rooms are so interesting and warm.

(i was kidding when i asked if it was a PETROF.. the name so prominently displayed in picture 2.) It is absolutely stunning.

What is that golden bust i see peeking from the corner?

Does the Petrof sign have to be readable from the 10th roll of seats??

Great room and beautiful animal. Bit of a side note, I always wondered, does a greater percentage of piano players fancy cats more or dogs, anyone have a guess? I'm leaning with cats.

LOL about the Petrof! My niece who is 17 months old knows her letters and she loves to point to them and say them out loud! Not in order, of course, but it's so cute.

The bust is Nefertiti I think. I was going for a Bohemian look when I chose the colors and the decor, I suppose that befits a Czech piano best.

I guess they wanted to make sure everyone knew what kind of piano it was, no questions asked LOL!

I think I saw more dogs on this thread than cats, but cats can sometimes be elusive creatures when it comes to the camera.

I haven't posted on the forum for a while, but I'd thought I would contribute a picture of my "piano room". This my Charles Walter CW190 when it was first delivered. I've since had it moved into our media room. I'll try to take a picture of it now and post it.



Jon

Nice pianos! And piano rooms. And pets

Every time I'm gone for awhile this thread has tripled in size, so it takes me awhile to catch up. But it's a fun read.

Cathy

Sorry I couldn't get the whole room in, but here's a shot of me playing Rachmaninov's Concerto #3. Some say I look young for my age, but I just put it down to good food and good living!

PeteF - I'm in love What a cutie.

Cathy

The technique shown in these octaves is superb!

Yeah well the pink I'm wearing is a give away, and luckily I take after my mum and not my dad; he's a real ugly bugger!

Ben, thanks I've been working on them a good proportion of my life now. I'll say one thing, they're progressing a lot better than my half-pedal ... or any pedal for that matter now I come to think of it!

Hi Folks,
here's my dp room:



- no pet, but there is a model railway :o)

Cheerio,
Andy T