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Original poster

To think recorders have no place at 9pm on a Friday night

34 replies

Ughnotagain · 27/11/2015 21:08

One of my neighbour's kids is playing "Jingle Bells" (I think). On a recorder. I'm trying to get my baby to sleep. She doesn't seem bothered by it but I bloody am.

I'm sure recorders must have been invented solely as torture devices...

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starry0ne · 27/11/2015 21:12

Oh my Ds is practicing for school concert too...It is an awful torture instrument.. He is asleep though at the mo so its not my DS bothering you I can add.

YokoUhOh · 27/11/2015 21:12

Recorders are beautiful:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=AfuBfOzUOWQ

But in the wrong hands they're heinous. I might have been guilty of letting DS (3) play my descant this morning at 6am but we live in a detached!

OhPillocks · 27/11/2015 21:14

Oh, I think you need to get MNHQ to amend your title to

AIBU TO THINK RECORDERS HAVE NO PLACE EVER

Andrewofgg · 27/11/2015 21:23

They sound dreadful in the hands of a novice.

Unlike bagpipes which sound dreadful in anyone's hands.

andantecantabile · 27/11/2015 21:29

I taught my year 3 recorder group jingle bells this week. I wholeheartedly apologise if it's one of them....

LionHeartedWoman · 27/11/2015 21:29

On a Friday night? YADNBU.

Lovemytent · 27/11/2015 21:30

I am currently being forced to listen to my neighbours daughter playing her keyboard at full volume.
It is, however, slightly preferable to the usual screaming and shouting we hear coming through the walls.
Fortunately our children sleep through the noise now, and it can't be heard from our bedroom so we just let it go.
Truly sympathise with you though OP.

Squeegle · 27/11/2015 21:31

Rather Friday night than Saturday or Sunday morning!

WhyCantIuseTheNameIWant · 27/11/2015 21:42

Everything has a place!

And a recorder should be nicely boxed away on a Friday night.

PunkrockerGirl · 27/11/2015 21:44

Anything is better than bagpipes Andrew. Tis the devil's instrument.
It does sound unreasonable, OP. But remember in a few years time your baby will be practising for her part in the nativity play and you'll get payback big time Smile Encourage dc to learn the violin

nancy75 · 27/11/2015 21:44

Recorders deserve no place on earth. My very very lovely friend is a recorder teacher, she is so nice and yet she is the cause of so much pain...

Original poster
Ughnotagain · 27/11/2015 21:49

Wow Yoko that's actually quite nice!

Love we usually have shouting and screaming too...in fact, we have had a bit of that tonight too. A detached house remains a dream...

Punk honestly I can't wait, DH plays a few instruments so in our house we have drums, guitars, bass, ukelele, saxophone...they won't know what's hit them Grin

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PunkrockerGirl · 27/11/2015 21:52
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ninared · 27/11/2015 21:58

feel your pain we have amateur opera singers next door very very bad ones.

They 'sing' at 6am before work and at weekends.

They have zero respect for neighbours and when in their pool and around the front the children who are about 15 & 17 scream and shout and shriek like two year olds who aren't disciplined and are very loud

just wish I had an answer to help you. I think the only thing that works is giving a taste of own medicine....being reasonable and talking about it never ends well from what I've seen and read on here as these sorts of people generally have no respect or thoughts for what you are feeling

9pm is way too late for a recorder!

Darvany · 27/11/2015 22:06

Play the long game, OP.

Think about recorders and squeaky garden toys on a Sunday morning in the hands of your baby in a year's time...

StylishDuck · 27/11/2015 22:07

I have shouted at a man collecting for charity who dared to buzz our buzzer (in the middle of the afternoon Blush) just as I was getting DD down for her nap.

Today I nearly marched outside to give a couple of tree surgeons who were chopping down a tree right outside DD's bedroom window a bollocking.

When it comes to getting babies to sleep YADNBU Grin

MaryMcGregor · 27/11/2015 22:09

They are the work of the devil! I have fond memories of being excellent at playing mine Grin as a child and bought dd one with the aim of learning to read music. I am sure people have killed for less.

DeepBlueLake · 27/11/2015 22:10

Yanbu, recorders have no place ever in the world.

We learnt to play the tin whistle at primary school and it was bloody awful Grin

Darvany · 27/11/2015 22:17

Yeah, YANBU about babies and sleep. DS regularly used to go over 48 hours without kipping. I once screeched at a workman who thought it was acceptable to have his music blaring from his van for him to listen to while in the house five doors down.

Helenluvsrob · 27/11/2015 22:20

Oi. Where is mn recorder posse when you need em?

My lovely friend and the kids ( and dh) teacher.

Any instrument is awful when you can only play jingle bells and it's 9pm!

Don't diss the recorders.

BitOutOfPractice · 27/11/2015 22:22

Wait till you've got a recorder playing child. You'll think it's gorgeous then. This is your penance in advance.

StylishDuck · 27/11/2015 22:30

I played the recorder as a child. 30 odd years later my DF still talks about the days he had to sit through 90 mins of screeching recorder playing children he didn't know just to hear 2-3 minutes of me screeching playing Grin

Catsize · 28/11/2015 00:05

My son is 4 next month. Yesterday, I went into a shop with a view to buying us a recorder each so I can teach him at home. I can't wait. Perhaps I should wait forever.

Helenluvsrob · 29/11/2015 13:16

Cats 4 is way too young. Fingers are too small for a start !

Andrewofgg · 29/11/2015 13:18

We are all wrong. Recorders have a place. As kindling on the fire. Take off the plastic mouthpiece first, please.