Piano Playing Noise Daily from Neighbors
Recently bought an attached brick house and now we are going crazy on a daily basis listening to our neighbors learning how to play piano. The noise level in intolerable and they play right at the time when we come home. We tried to reason with them many many times, asking to move the piano…
Recently bought an attached brick house and now we are going crazy on a daily basis listening to our neighbors learning how to play piano. The noise level in intolerable and they play right at the time when we come home. We tried to reason with them many many times, asking to move the piano away from the common wall or to play at different times, to no avail. My husband gets soo upset that he called police once and it did not lead to anything. When can we do, our house is turning into a nightmare as we can’t even relax after difficult day at work. We are even considering selling. Any advice on how possibly to resolve this situation? The neighbors are very stubborn and are not willing to compromise even a little bit. Any advice will be appreciated.
Thank you!
Hard to believe the police did nothing when you called them. They should have arrested the little twerp and thrown him behind bars for twenty years.
Honestly, if this post isn’t a big sign New York is over, I don’t know what is.
This used to be a place where kids played stickball out in the street all evening, where artists, musicians and performers used to be out in full force, where you couldn’t walk down the street and not hear someone practicing their tenor sax for a broadway performance of Miss Saigon later that evening. Or a young singer practicing for her Metropolitan Opera audition or a young String Quartet from Juilliard practing the Ravel Quartet.
It’s come to the point where an hour of a kid (btw, how do you KNOW that this little one won’t be the next, Mozart?) can’t even practice their piano for an hour a day without the cops being called. It’s absurd and it’s sad.
HGTV’s slogan has it right. Start at home. If we don’t do something soon, this country will soon be nothing but a bunch of boobs sitting around a computer all day.
Oh wait…
the OP is gross.
please don’t even dignify this with so many responses.
he/she’s a loon.
plain and simple.
No, I’m sorry, Johnny, but the OP is the one being uncivil here.
A piano is a time honored staple of Western life. There was a time before radio and tv that every home had one, and music making was an honored form of entertainment for the home. Having a child discover the joys of making music is as old as music, and in our Western society, a piano is usually how most children are introduced to it. A child who learns to love making music is better disciplined later in life, better at math, generally better in school, and often more likely to stay out of trouble, and is more self assured and self sufficient.
If you have a piano already at home, why should you go out and buy an electric one, so your one neighbor doesn’t have to hear your kid practice for one hour a day? Is it civil to call the cops on them? How absolutely absurd. We have serious crime, in terms of noise, we have all night parties, or other real quality of life concerns. But a child playing scales and Mozart for an hour a day is worthy of the police? Next they will be calling because of crying babies.
Get over it, OP. Go somewhere else, soundproof your home, or move to the top of a hill in South Dakota. That’s about the only place you aren’t going to get the everyday noises of living in an urban area.
Civility is not too much to expect. These days it’s easy to get a keyboard with headphones to practice with.
I suggest you take up bagpipes.
Yeah, be glad it’s just a piano. We live next door to a very active RC church. Sundays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m it’s nonstop, starting with a relatively sedate organ Mass, then going quickly downhill to a roof-raising drum thumping charismatic Spanish language I don’t know what the hell it is but it sure is loud and annoying.
I can’t believe you poisoned the well with your neighbors over an hour of piano playing. Sure it’s a PITA but as they say, whatchoogonnado?
But what the hell, since your neighbor already hates you, I’d fight fire with fire and face your speakers to the wall.
Out of curiosity, if you’ll even have the courage to answer the question now…
What neighborhood is it anyway?
Just be glad your neighbor didn’t decide to play the drums.
Get over it.
“The paino playing is indeed very loud and it is EVERY day for an hour after we come home. I can’t get any rest after work in my own house. ”
this sentence tells it all.
i bet you work on wall street and think you work harder than everyone else. you have an overinflated sense of entitlement.
it’s a little kid. practicing the piano. for an hour. seriously.
if i had to guess, i would guess that the people have been “unapproachable” is probably b/c you were a jerk about it and they find people of your ilk moving into their neighborhood to be annoying.