Playing musical instruments in the evening with baby next door

[FortuneFire]

Avoiding an onslaught from the very scary AIBU boards, but interested in the prevailing view here.

If a household is very musical and plays instruments multiple times a day, should said household limit evening playing if their neighbours have a baby? Or is it the case that the baby is not their problem and they should be free to play past 8pm regardless of how much the sound travels?

Instruments in this scenario are trumpet, saxophone and most recently, bass guitar.

I think it would be anti social to play after 8pm baby or not.

Those are all very loud instruments… I’d expect anyone to be reasonable with when they’re practised and how loudly. Certainly not past 9pm!

I wouldn’t particularly expect a baby to make a difference. Though neither of my kids were down for the night before 9 until they’d stopped napping. If I had a baby and these neighbours I’d be tempted to get my baby on a bit of a later schedule!

Agree with @DinnaeFashYersel I'd find that really annoying and thoughtless.

My babies all screamed loudly in the evening much louder than any instruments.

You can get mutes for trumpets.

Bass guitar if electric should be able to go through headphones.

Personally I'd lay off the practising a bit or shift it earlier but I'd need to know there was a baby.

Baby or not it’s unsociable to be playing multiple instruments all day long. You can get mutes or headphones for said instruments and you should be a considerate neighbour doing so.

Are you the musicians or the baby havers?

I'd say it's only a problem if it's a problem. I.e. you can't expect neighbours not to play musical instruments. If it actually seems to wake baby (often they'd sleep through an elephant parade and teaching them to expect silence is a bad thing imho) then I'd expect some sensible measures like playing in a further room, sound absorption, not playing too late at night etc.

And I'd be careful about getting on a high horse about it, that baby will be a toddler wanting to whack saucepans with a metal spoon for long periods soon enough and the noise will be going the other way!