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!
I can’t believe you are getting in the way of some adorable little child’s piano lessons. Move to a different part of your house to rest when you come home from work. It’s a piano, not a pimped out stereo system.
Soundproof your walls. That’s all you can do.
I’m with shalman on this one. If it’s loud enough, you have rights too.
Start by sending a letter stating they are interfering with the quiet enjoyment of your home. I would also state that you previously tried to resolve the situation amicably, and the response was hostile.
It’s my opinion that someone with a music studio should be the one soundproofing or at least the one paying.
PS. There’s also the immature route of leaving annoying music on while you’re gone all day. I suggest polkas or Michael Bolton. You could also record her piano playing.
Turn on some music.
Thank you everyone for your advice. However, I would not have called the police if it was not warranted. First, the people are refusing to do anythiing about it — although she is a home stay mom and can do the practice during the time when we are not home. When we make several attempts to try and reason with them, their father got very angry and almost violent and prompted to call the police. 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.
Again, if they could just hear us out and try and smth about it, I don’t think I would have been this frustrated. But these people are unapproachable and they don’t make any attempt to help the situation. I guess the only thing we can do now is to soundproof the wall. Thank you, CrownGardener for the helpful tip.
CrownGardener gave you some solid info…
I think that it’s a shame that the police had to be called… how long do your neighbors “tickle the ivories”… an hour every night?
If it’s a child… don’t worry before long the lessons will most likely become a bore and the parents will get tired of nagging the kid to practice! 🙂
Are you sellling? What block? I’d be happy to share the wall and have my kid befriend them so he too can learn without my needing to get him his own piano.
seriously – you called the police?
sounds to me like you, too, “are very stubborn and are not willing to compromise even a little bit.”
Crowngardener’s suggestion makes a lot of sense, much more than anything you wrote. I can’t believe you called the police.
You need to soundproof the party wall in the rooms where you spend the most time while they are playing. Search the archive on this site and you will find recommendations on how to properly soundproof.
Also check out these folks:
http://www.quietsolution.com/?google&gclid=CM7T3-HDvYsCFQI2ZQoduXIY2Q
If you do it right, you won’t hear it and rebuilding a wall is not prohibitively expensive.