Your least favorite sounds...

[m1469]

So, what are some of your least favorite sounds?

I loathe the sound of worry and fear  !

I hate the sound of airplane engines

I don't like the sound of the oldy... fingernails on chalkboards

How about you?

m1469

[klavierkonzerte]

i hate the sound of rubing a spon with a fork.

[bernhard]

Children blowing with all might on a recorder while I am trying to explain something.

Sirens (police, fire brigade, ambulance)

Muzak

The local church bells.

Cars/motos with a defective escapement.

Pianos out of tune.

Beginners trying to play the violin, flute, Sax, Oboe, etc.

Babies screaming.

Hydraulic stone crushers.

Alarming noises from machinery (computers, cars, TV, etc.) that may signal a problem that will cost a fortune to fix.

George Bush’s and Tony Blair’s voices.

(I may add to it later)

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[JK]

People moaning about things they have no right to moan about.

[JK]

The sound of a room full of loads of people, none of which I know.

[DarkWind]

Xenakis' "Music"

Those really, really, loud sirens on ambulances. As if we can't see them with their lights that could give anyone who looks straight at them for 10 seconds an epileptic seizure.

Pianos out of tune.

Ravel loved out of tune pianos . They give a very interesting feel to a piece, makes it sound less mechanical and more mysterious.

[donjuan]

I hate the sound of the surgeon saying "whoops!" just as you go unconscious.  
I also hate the sound of people vomiting...urgh!

[liszmaninopin]

Boulez

Children crying in a restaurant

Cell phones going off during a performance

Sawing metal by hand

People mispronouncing etcetera, actually, people mispronouncing anything

a seriously fumbled passage in any of my performances

honking of car horns for no apparent reason

buzzing, electronic alarm clocks

any particularly obnoxious telephone

the stupid sounding music that some people's cell phones make when ringing

[bernhard]

Ravel loved out of tune pianos . They give a very interesting feel to a piece, makes it sound less mechanical and more mysterious.

I guess strictly speaking pianos are by definition out of tune. (equal temperament and all that). But I was referring to terminal cases. I once went to student's house where the middle C, the D and the E all sounded exactly the same C#. And these were the good notes.

[bernhard]

the stupid sounding music that some people's cell phones make when ringing

Fur Elise ringing tone!

[Spatula]

The sound of the rubber gum boots brought right into the house and squeeking squeeking...just as bad as the chalkboard.

[Tash]

the cat next door going INSANE in the middle of the night and making weird loud noises and jumping on the tin roof ()

the music they play when out clubbing (oh woohoo i get to listen to it tonight)

the sound of my voice when it's sightsinging, actually singing in general, it's quite painful

drunken teenagers walking past our house in the middle of the night making a stupid amount of noise and emphasising the fact that they're 'drunk'

[m1469]

Approaching, heavy, twigg and stick busting footsteps, in the middle of the night, in the middle of a forest

Creaks and knocks, when I am alone in a strange house, especially after dark (I have done a bit of house-sitting as part-time work in the past)

The creaks an old boat makes as it sits upon the water and is rocked by the swells of the sea

The sound that a mulch pile full of maggots makes

A little dog yapping all day long (or any dog barking all day long)

People arguing with harshness and venom in their tone (especially when the voice is my own!)

[dlu]

The sound of George Bush's voice!!! (Yes I know Bernhard already said this but I thought of it before I read his post and I thought it was well worth repeating)

[Spatula]

those damned wild dogs that keep barking at night just outside my back yard.

[Daevren]

All unmusical high pitched sounds!

All loud unmusical sounds.

All very loud sounds.