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To complain about the piano noise

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Noisedrivingmemad · 29/07/2023 12:49

We have recently moved into a semi detached house. On our attached side are a couple aged about 60, and a couple of lodgers.
They are friendly people, dropped a card in when we moved, the woman has spoken to my DH a fair bit over the fence about gardening, not intrusive ,very nice, all good.
HOWEVER, she is a piano and violin teacher.
3 week days (mostly after school) she is teaching piano and violin and it is like. She. Is. In. The. Room.

I can just about handle the lessons, although the violin is pretty awful. My kids are fairly noisy after school so I kind of see it as fair game, and accept that being in a semi-detached house means we need to accept some noise. I just tolerate it, even though every dinner time it feels like we are accompanied by the god awful piano playing.
But even at the weekend she is playing (not teaching). She has been playing for the last 2 hours, I could kill her. I literally want to rip that piano out the wall. My kids were watching a film and I turned it up as loud as possible out of pure rage, but in the kitchen I can still hear it, tinkle tinkle fucking tinkle, the tunes go round and round in my head.
I think I might crack and throw myself off my own balcony. Sometimes I go to sleep dreaming of taking a big machete to her musical instruments or chopping her fingers off with my bread knife.

So what would you do? Should I say something?? Do I just live with it? Is it anti-social?

Help.

OP posts:
caringcarer · 29/07/2023 23:28

She is not playing the piano late at night or early in the morning so I think you simply have to suck it up. Possibly get yourself a good pair of ear plugs .

caringcarer · 29/07/2023 23:30

HarrietJet · 29/07/2023 14:33

Prior to television, most homes did have them.

My Grandparents were very WC and they had one and both my Grandmother and my Aunt's played it too.

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