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Having a Piano In Rented Accomodation
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rosalie-lavender wrote: »
The only thing I would say is site it on an internal wall, rather than one adjoining the neighbours, if the walls are thin. We can hear the clunking of the keys at night time if he is in the next room playing and we are in bed.
He's either playing piano or having sex in 9/8 :eek::rotfl:Stop! Think. Read the small print. Trust nothing and assume that it is your responsibility. That way it rarely goes wrong.
Actively hunting down the person who invented the imaginary tenure, "share freehold"; if you can show me one I will produce my daughter's unicorn0 -
Cover the inside of the flat with egg boxes?
... which will deaden the sound within the room, but do nothing at all to prevent sound transmission through the walls, floor and ceiling.
Time for the OP's friend to leave the acoustic piano at parents' house, and invest in a decent hammer action electronic one with a headphone socket.....0 -
Our middle daughter started with a recorder and ended up with a Sax.
When she got to the clarinet I built a sound proof box with a sleeve opening, microphones, amp and phones.
I did suggest buying her an EWI but Mrs PM and she are purists
Stop! Think. Read the small print. Trust nothing and assume that it is your responsibility. That way it rarely goes wrong.
Actively hunting down the person who invented the imaginary tenure, "share freehold"; if you can show me one I will produce my daughter's unicorn0 -
but the landlord has said that she is not allowed to have a piano in the flat. He says he's spoken to the other tenants who have said they don't want her to have one there.
I highly doubt that she is "not allowed to". And as long as she does not cause a nuisance there's no reasonable ground to prevent her from having one.0 -
It is fairly common that the underlying leases specifically exclude the playing of musical instruments.
The landlord is in a bit of bother however if they have granted a tenancy along the lines jjlandlord has suggested, but which then conflicts with that exclusion in the flat owners lease....Stop! Think. Read the small print. Trust nothing and assume that it is your responsibility. That way it rarely goes wrong.
Actively hunting down the person who invented the imaginary tenure, "share freehold"; if you can show me one I will produce my daughter's unicorn0 -
Cover the inside of the flat with egg boxes?
Personally I'd like the sounds of a panio playing as long as they knew how to play it! A friend lives underneath someone who is learning to play. Often first thing on a weekend morning you hear panio noise...... Same song over and over again, wouldn't be so bad if the person was good but alas they don't seem to have improved
I don't 'mind' a piano, or I thought I didn't until upstairs moved in and they play every single day. The same short list of songs, and while she or he isn't too bad (but not great) it's just annoying to have it going every evening, and every weekend.
Hard things to complain about as it is in reasonable times, but just really annoying when you hear the plinkity plinktly plonk start up again every evening.0 -
could the issue be with the floor being able to support a piano? I thought they needed to be sited on reinforced floor ?0
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My next door neighbour plays the piano and i love listening to them,
However our houses a well insulated and i can only really hear them from the adjoining rooms - bathroom, corridors, stairs and the small bedroom.
I'm actually considering getting one and learning!Weight loss challenge, lose 15lb in 6 weeks before Christmas.0 -
My office is located in a shed and contains my instruments.
They are played through small monitors or headphones, however one day while trying to learn the keyword sequence by mixing it with the original, my attempts were being blasted around the garden, and the neighbourhood, on a Saturday morning.
Several hundred attempts at a mini Moog solo with lots of octave shifting along with Frost* didn't go down too well.
This is the composer - you can see how good and complicated it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3JMIAPIpDg:cool:Stop! Think. Read the small print. Trust nothing and assume that it is your responsibility. That way it rarely goes wrong.
Actively hunting down the person who invented the imaginary tenure, "share freehold"; if you can show me one I will produce my daughter's unicorn0 -
could the issue be with the floor being able to support a piano? I thought they needed to be sited on reinforced floor ?
Where on earth did you get that idea? From Werdnal's posts?
"Small upright pianos weigh 300 to 400 lbs
Big uprights run from 500 lbs. thru 800 lbs
Grand pianos anywhere from 500 to 1200 lbs"
Average weight of 1 human male, 6 feet tall - 160 - 180 lbs or so....
So a small upright = just over 2 males
Large upright = 2.5 to 3 males
Grand = 3 to 6 males
Would you say you needed to get a floor reinforced in order to have a gathering of more than 2 people in an upstairs flat?
Or would you restrict the size of your dinner parties (6 to 8 to 10 people, total weight up to 2000 lbs or so, around a table, typically in the centre of the room) until you'd had the floor strengthened?0
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