Neighbors

[debussy symbolism]

Greetings.

I know that this topic has been adressed before. I am sure that the neighbors provide a nighmare for some of us here and just would like your opinions. I live in a town house and have 2 pianos(one acoustic and one digital) and don't mind practicing on a digital in the morning or at night. However, in all due respect and protocol, my neighbors don't have the right to repeteadly knock against the wall.

Your opinions?

[bernhard]

Er… As long it is not at night on in the early morning, why not?

I suggest you soundproof the room so that you don´t hear the knocking. (You could also call the police and complain of the noise – but that may be the end of good neighbour relations).

Have a look here as well:

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,1923.msg14994.html#msg14994
(How not to disturb the neighbours with practice)

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[debussy symbolism]

No it is not at night, as I use the digital piano for that. I am however not going to soundproof my walls, because 1) the sound goes through the wall onto the top floor walls 2) I am not going to do that, they will. Before my Baldwin arrived, I used to often play my digital without the headphones, and I suspect they soundproofed the wall as I heard alot of noice going on there.

I am not going to call police under any circumstance unless they threaten me. They can complain all they want.

Okay, enough whining.

[garetanne]

guess I'm lucky...... earlier in the year, before the warm weather allowed me to open my windows I was horrified when the neighbor across the street commented on my progress.

These days he actually sits in his yard and listens to me practice.

I've asked my other neighbors if they hear me, but apparently they are all locked up with the central a/c on.

I had my SO play one night and walked down the block.  It's amazing how far the sound carries.

[thorn]

my neighbours actually came round and told me to stop playing the piano. i told them to stop catching buses and smelling of murray mints (they are old people).

they also blast their country music at full volume whenever i practise...

neighbours are such a pain

[ce nedra]

If they knock on the wall, ignore it, even play louder. It'll 1) annoy them to such a degree that they'll give in or move out. 2) improve your concentration skills.

A friend of mine has the same problem. She doesnt care, just carries on. Lets just say she's gone through a few nieghbours in the past few years. Once they tried to play their music loud, and she put on Mozart 15 at full blast and played along as loud as she could. When it finished, they had put off their music and never tried that again

[bella musica]

Wow, I'm lucky.  My next door neighbor loves it when I play the piano.  She says that she always looks forward to summertime when we can open the windows and she can hear me playing while she works in her garden.