Northern Whistler wrote:You can only get a few bars in on a straight stretch of road, by steering with your knee. Providing no other cars are comming of course. It is not the safest or smartest thing to do I guess, but you can't live life in a bubble.
I like to jam
In a traffic jam
It sure gets the horns a blowin
My dining room is my music room so generally I play in there. It's an old house with large rooms and our "den" is exactly diagonal to the dining room with plenty of doors between. Actually, after living with me for going on 32 yrs now, my husband has learned that complaining does absolutely no good when it comes to my playing music.
In the warm months I often play on the front porch. On the farm no one cares.
"Let low-country intruder approach a cove
And eyes as gray as icicle fangs measure stranger
For size, honesty, and intent." John Foster West
Tell us something.: Well dang, I just want to change my password. looking for that correct page! Thank you! Ohh good grief, I get it, you have to be careful who you let in because of spammers, but sigh.... I'm in a hurry, can we move this along please. :)
I like to Play on the front porch. I live in the country so not too many people can hear me. The rest of the time, I play in the office at the computer or in the music (living) room.
Cheers,
Kathy
~*~Creativity is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to God~*~
Seriously, though: living room, kitchen, at the 'puter, band practice, sessions, ceilis, dance school demos, busking, and onstage; not all in equal measure. Sometimes I play at work when it's slow. The acoustics of auto service garages are fabulous. Paul knows about this.
bathrooms have (on general) the BEST acoustics in a house.
The reason? because there is usually no (or very little) sound absorbing materials (like carpet, fancy wallcovering stuff, beds, carpet, uhh, carpet... or furniture... I went in my room at my old house right before we left. It was completely empty and echoed!! -> not a big room)
I go to the local brewery, though I'd hardly call that unusual. It's a nice one, excellent acoustics.
"I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good." - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
"I'm the goodest sheep rider there is. Except Jesus." - Koby Blunt, multiple time rodeo champion, age 6
Our upstairs hallway has a high cathedral ceiling--great acoustics for when I need to locate an errant cat by playing "The Girl I Left Behind Me," but my normal location is at my bedroom desk. Husband plays sax in the basement because he likes the privacy, but I HATE the fluorescent lights down there!
In the more unusual category, I play in the car, while sitting in the carpool line waiting for school to let out.
I'm a beginner and often practice while sitting in front of my computer, reading online whistle music.
When my mother-in-law stayed at my house for a month a while back (she had a broken leg and I took care of her), I had to practice in the bathroom with the door shut because she said my playing hurt her ears. Her singing hurts mine, so we're even. lol
"We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us."
-Terence McKenna
I play wherever I happen to be at home (usually basement in front of the comp, as now), and at the park by the lake when I go over there. People are kinda used to me by now, lol.
On the porch overlooking the lake, in ferry lineups, on the car deck of the ferry (too windy on the top deck), and just outside the bathroom. There are 6 of us, and one bathroom; playing reels on a Gen G tends to speed things up, but daughter #2 thinks I'm nucking futs.
