Music rehearsals & cycling around

Not sure about others here, but on the rare occasion, one cycles about..and hears someone practicing on their instrument.

Yesterday morning when descending a nice long hill, I could hear bagpipe music playing on a beach below the cliff. Doubtful that there would an event on a Monday morning in an semi-isolated area.

Other times, I've cycled in light industrial areas where one hears a band or drum practicing in a warehouse or empty office area somewhere. The latter stuff usually happens in early evening or so.

I would kill to hear bagpipes on a ride...way cool! :D

Don't you wish you could take a snapshot of the sounds and smells of a bike ride?

It was abit ethereal, considering the fact, one couldn't see the player but it was floating above from the ocean direction area somewhere high above old growth trees.

I must admit hanging around close for awhile, to live bagpipe music playing, hurts my ears abit.

It would neat...to hear accordian music outdoors floating around somewhere. That is one instrumental music that may already get a nouveau rennaissance like the remake of fiddling music over the past few decades.

When I saw the thread title and just the start of the thread, I immediately thought of the bagpipe music I used to hear many years ago. There was a hill I'd climb regularly where someone in one of houses would practice. It always made me smile.

Oh to my surprise, it was also bagpipe music you also heard! Cool. It is an instrument that carries quite a bit. You're right, though, on the bike, in passing, it is lovely....but, in person, it can be a little overbearing.

i wonder if he's the same guy who we've heard playing at Elliott bay while we were riding OUR bikes?

I am one of those people who love bagpipes. But I can understand why it would bother others. Amazing Grace on the bagpipes is definitely my favorite hymn.

My eldest son fills our home with music. Piano, acoustic, electric and bass guitars, and the mandolin. he plays the drums any chance he gets near a set. He would like to add the bagpipes. I would like him to as well but he already has so many activities to keep track of and he leaves for college this fall.

I haven't heard any music on my rides yet. The houses are generally too far from the road in the rural area where we live. What I do enjoy is passing the campgrounds and getting a whiff of the camp fires.

I hope more and more people will return to actually playing instruments for their own enjoyment instead of only listening to ipods and cds. There is nothing more lovely than passing by someone playing music from the heart. :)

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Originally Posted by shootingstar

It would neat...to hear accordian music outdoors floating around somewhere. That is one instrumental music that may already get a nouveau rennaissance like the remake of fiddling music over the past few decades.

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Yeah, that would be cool!

I love bagpipes-- but outside is absolutely the right place to hear them!

I regularly hear a beginning trombonist (he's 10 now) when I'm out riding. I stopped to talk with him one day when his mother had sent him outside to practice; he's a cool kid. And he's improving fast...

BTW, there's a professional cellist in the area who's car-free, and transports his cello on his xtracycle. It's a sight to see! I'm way too chicken to haul my viola or violin by bike...

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Originally Posted by skhill

BTW, there's a professional cellist in the area who's car-free, and transports his cello on his xtracycle. It's a sight to see! I'm way too chicken to haul my viola or violin by bike...

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I heard of a regular cyclist who cycled around town with her French horn. Kinda bulky....

Sometimes on the rollers I hear Brewer play piano; does that count?

my daughter who lives in Austin, often rides to rehearsals with a band she play with carrying her trombone on her back. She says she got used to doing it while attending UNT and just continues. Of course Austin, in genneral. and in particular in the area she rides in, is very bike friendly and she is able todo most of the ride on bike paths. I think I would be very worried for both her and the trombone if she rode in traffic.

marni