<p>The intro to Time with all the clocks going off at once, strategically timed when the neighbor starts…</p>
<p>Or some Roxy Music with violin solos by Eddie Jobson or Lucy Wilkins (preferably) that should be enough to humble most professional musicians to silence…</p>
<p>thanks all…you are making me laugh at a situation I see no real answer for. The guy thinks he’s good, which is the problem and cannot take constructive criticism. He’s also someone who has one volume for his voice…LOUD and is always yelling at his kids. We seem to get the brunt of the performance, as the decks of the neighbors on either side of him have part of their house blocking the sounds waves. </p>
<p>My junior year in college, the druggie guys that lived above me played “Betty Davis Eyes” on a non-stop loop. Whenever I hear it, I tense up.</p>
<p>how about firing up a chainsaw every time he starts playing?</p>
<p>All these proposed solutions seem to be escalating the problem by hostile actions. However justified hostility would be, it is unlikely to make things better. What if, instead, you accepted his view of himself as a talented violinist, and tried to negotiate with him on that basis? After all, even if he were good, you wouldn’t want to listen to a violin concert every day. </p>
<p>Your objective is not to cause him pain, or to change his view of himself, however distorted it might be. Your objective is to get him to play indoors. If you managed to get him to stop playing outdoors, but he still was able to practice and still thought of himself as good, that would be a win-win situation, which ought to be your goal.</p>
<p>I used to have a neighbor who played music very loudly through an open window. We asked nicely, but no luck. Finally, we faced a boombox it in the direction of the open window when he wasn’t playing music and blasted the theme song for Barney the Dinosaur over and over and over and over again. The relationship was ever after hostile, but no further music on either side.</p>
<p>I don’t get playing outside in a populated area. Why would someone think anyone else in the world would be interested in being forced to listen to them do anything?</p>
<p>OK, reading this as I listen to the kids loud screeching behind my house. I have no problem with kids playing and yelling, but the constant screeching is driving me crazy. Mom or dad never tells them to tone it down. We were always conscious of the elderly neighbors on either side of us when our kids were growning up. I was on top of them all the time. I don’t know these neighbors as they are on the next street with lots of trees between us. Can’t see the kids, just hear them.</p>
<p>You could make enough money to build a huge fence if you set up a pitching machine in your yard and give batting lessons to youth baseball teams. Actually skip the youth teams and go straight to adult softball teams.</p>
<p>Betty Davis Eyes would torture you both. Maybe turn it on, then leave. I HATE that song, now it’s running through my head.</p>
<p>The only song that I can recall making me angry was “they’re coming to take me away”.</p>
<p>You might play that if you dare. :)</p>
<p>You can probably find it on youtube.</p>
<p>CF, you are a nicer person than I am.</p>
<p>I vote for making a YouTube video…just let us know the link and we will help you make it go viral.</p>
<p>I assume anyone who plays an instrument outside wants an audience…</p>
<p>It’s not a matter of being nice; it’s a matter of being effective. I always ignored my mother when she said, “You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar,” being a devout vinegar-server, but it’s true. The desired ending here is not revenge, but silence. </p>
<p>Saying, “You suck and I hate it when you saw away on the violin,” might be satisfying, but it’s not going to work. Attacking the neighbor is also more likely to escalate the situation than solve it. Starting a fight with a neighbor is rarely a good idea. Other ideas should be tried first.</p>
<p>I don’t think she is going to take us up on our ideas, as she said, no good solution for this problem. But I’ll bet, after listening to all these ridiculous ideas, she can listen to that caterwauling with a bit of a smile on her face.</p>
<p>I’m leaning to the YouTube video. I will post a link when available. </p>
<p>It was quiet again tonight. I think they may be on vacation.</p>
<p>Maybe the neighbors on the other side complained :)</p>
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<p>That’s EVIL! :D</p>
<p>Props to you for a suggestion which may top all our suggestions… </p>
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<p>Out of curiosity, is that boombox still intact physically and/or psychologically?</p>
<p>Cobrat, it was years ago when I had a little kid who needed to nap. When a woman has a little kid who is regularly overtired because of someone else’s behavior, she becomes desperate and no one is safe.</p>
<p>“It was quiet again tonight. I think they may be on vacation.”</p>
<p>Or maybe they read cc parent cafe and the fear of Barney, It’s a Small World, and Betty Davis Eyes put that violin to rest.</p>
<p>Water-balloon catapult.</p>
<p>“Fire in the hole!”</p>
<p>I just played BB’s “singing” dog youtube (in post # 31) and my DH, who had fallen asleep downstairs in his office with the door closed, came up panicky- asking what that godawful noise was! oops :o</p>
<p>These are so entertaining. How about a lovely round of Shari Lewis’s “song that never ends”?? He’ll never get rid of that earworm! [The</a> Song that Never Ends - YouTube](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz6OGVCdov8]The”>The Song that Never Ends - YouTube)</p>