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I’m guessing you’ve never had a beginning violinist in the family. It can be quite loud. And quite painful.</p>
<p>As to revenge music, how about Slim Whitman? If his singing can kill aliens surely it can drive away bad violinist!
<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAdvqQzO1PY[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAdvqQzO1PY</a></p>
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<p>Already posted in #91. Nice to know we have the same evil ideas. :D</p>
<p>Ah, cobrat you beat me to it! SW’s music was so wonderfully bad that in the late 70’s my high school had a Slim Whitman fan club.</p>
<p>Updating this thread…this year’s instrument of choice is…the trumpet! </p>
<p>While not as teeth gnashing or as painful as the violin, the guy still can’t play. Going to be a long summer, as 7-8pm appears to be practice time. </p>
<p>Oh myyyyyyyy. I guess a trumpet is a little better than a violin. Maybe you could fight back with a beginning clarinetist? Remember, they’re not squeaks, they’re overtones!</p>
<p>Our kid is a trumpet player. And he had to stop practicing by 9…that was our neighbors requests! And he is a good player. 7-8 sounds reasonable.,hey…at least the kid practices. </p>
<p>ETA…our kid NEVER practiced outside!</p>
<p>When I was in high school, I used to practice my flute in the bathroom because the tiles gave it a wonderful sound and I could hear both the good and bad better. Years later, my neighbor told me she used to love listening to me and would go lay down on her bed and enjoy my playing. I guess many of those days I had the window open? Yikes! I admit I was pretty good, but practice time is far different than a recital. Scales, repetitive work on difficult passages, etc. Kind of embarrassing, but at least it’s good to know she wasn’t gnashing her teeth every day or debating about calling the police. :0 They did pay me to play the flute for their daughter’s wedding years later, so I guess she was sincere.</p>
<p>Sorry about the violin. I had to take lessons for a semester in college, and it was a VERY difficult instrument to play without causing others pain. It’s much easier to become proficient on a wind or brass instrument imo, so hopefully this won’t cause you as much angst now that he has taken up the trumpet!</p>
<p>As the mother of one child who played the flute and one who played the violin, I can say without any reservation that a flute played badly is a heck of a lot better than a violin played badly. </p>
<p>And once my daughter became proficient on the flute, I’ve actually enjoyed listening to her practice. Even scales and repetitive passages. 
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<p>I’m a classical organist but my first instrument was the violin. My mom made me go to the garage to practice. I soon learned that I needed an instrument that could be moved around!</p>
<p>Shoot - I meant could NOT be moved around. So piano then organ fit the bill.</p>
<p>I think that broadcasting your own music is the only thing to do. (I also differ with the posters above: I think trumpet is MUCH worse than violin! )</p>
<p>If you cannot call police on them, then nothing you could do, bad or fnatastic. We watch TV outside all the time and I do my Spanish outside (outloud) all the time but it is not as bad as taking care of your lawn. If you are tolerating the grass cutting, then anything else is very tolerable.
The other solution is to move into the woods and live in a cave. </p>
<p>As the parent of kids who coincidentally started off on these exact instruments I’d say a violin played badly or at an early stage (as in the first 2 years or so) is more painful than a trumpet, even a trumpet played badly. However, a violin played well is much more pleasant as background noise than a trumpet at any level. </p>
<p>I agree that if you put on music of your own when your neighbor plays outside I’ll make it hard for him to concentrate on his own music. Turn the music off when he plays inside and he’ll get the message. Make it violin music and you’ll really mess with his brain.</p>
<p>Miami, again…did you READ the thread? </p>
<p>Just in case (hopefully this isn’t the case though) no one’s said it, could you try asking him to play a different time of the day because you prefer it to be quiet when you sit out on the deck during that time of the day? Instead of just stirring angrily or calling the police or retaliating by being equally annoying or something like that. </p>
<p>I have one son who is an excellent trumpet player-has had experience playing in a professional pit band. One summer night a backyard neighbor called to ask me to have him stop playing. “As the crow flies,” her house is several hundred feet away, and my son was playing, as he always does, with his windows shut and the shades down. I made him stop, and in retrospect, I never should have done that. I have no idea how she could possibly have heard him, and realize later that she had her windows open.</p>
<p>My neighbors son is taking up drums! I can hear him play them, and I laugh. This is the same neighbor who would come to my house all pinch faced about my kids playing basketball in the late evening and early morning though the basket is not all that close to her house, and asked that we not yell out our dogs name of make much noise after 8PM since she had three little ones and she puts them to bed early and the sounds from our yard keep them awake. I told her that we’d cut the sound after 9, Sunday through Thursday. I don’t think she was happy about my response. </p>
<p>And now her children are hitting the ages my kids were even as my children are going and gone from the house. Not the complaining type, but we’ll see how she sticks to the rules. </p>
<p>When my daughter took up the sax I felt like walking the 'hood and aplogizing to all the neighbors. I made her practice in the bathroom, door shut, fan on. And it still made me nuts. </p>
<p>I don’t get why people would practice outside, unless they didn’t want the noise inside where the other family members are. Which is of course inconsiderate to the neighbors. Reminds me of people who hold their hand with a cigarette in it outside their car. Granted there aren’t ashtrays in cars anymore, but if you dont want to smell your ()<em>&$</em>%(^&$ cigarette, neither do I, and it comes through the vent into my car. Keep your smelly cigarette in your own car please! (Rant over). So this musician should keep rehearsals in his own house too.</p>
<p>I think you should play the Barney cleanup song outside-- over and over and over…</p>
<p>We were outside on our backyard in a beautiful perfect weather for entire evening yesterday. But neighbors just could not stop cutting this grass. What is with this obsession of constantly mowing the lawn. I would much rather listen to a bad or fantastic or whtever violin playing. Frankly, we do not even own a mower. It takes about 2 min. from our services to cut our grass, but we do not even like when they are there on a weekend or in a evening. Sorry, I cannot understand how violin palying can bother anybody, while nobody is compalining about constant grass cutting hour after hour when people want to have it quiet after work.<br>
Here is a suggestion if you want somebdoy to stop palying vioilin outside - start mowing your lawn and do not stop for few hours. </p>