sounds

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:08 pm

sounds can be so evocative. every few hours i hear a train go by in the distance. when Bothwell was here last he commented on the sound of it. it is a lonely and melancholy sound. what sounds touch you?

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:27 pm

lady cop wrote: sounds can be so evocative. every few hours i hear a train go by in the distance. when Bothwell was here last he commented on the sound of it. it is a lonely and melancholy sound. what sounds touch you?

Train. Yes indeed. Melancholy and lonely. The night train. The train Johnny Cash couldn't get on when he was in Folsom. Planes and boats and trains took you away. The southbound train of classic blues.

To digress a little - I kept a piece circulated years ago on the internet on how to sing the blues...

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~pblower/ ... /blues.htm

(OOOf on reading that, I realise I must have rewritten it for the aussie medical research school I was working at then... gotta revert it..)

(Also: I guess a train heading out of Florida would probably be north bound anyway..)

Then of course there's uillean pipes wailing out the woes of humanity in a slow lament..

Sad, lonely, melancholy sounds.

A few sounds that always make me happy are kids laughing, birdsong, the sea.

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:33 pm

once again Pam, we are in synch (are you my long-lost sister?)...i have 750 hours of blues on tape. WGBH in boston used to borrow my music. and johnny cash never was in folsom except to sing. he was a phoney wannabe con who did 2 days in jail.

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:39 pm

Trains, Planes and Automobiles..!! Also the BLUES for sure.. !! BAG PIPES..!! The sound of waves hitting the shore, wind, rain..kids laughing..

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:04 pm

lady cop wrote: once again Pam, we are in synch (are you my long-lost sister?)...i have 750 hours of blues on tape. WGBH in boston used to borrow my music. and johnny cash never was in folsom except to sing. he was a phoney wannabe con who did 2 days in jail.

And rain, yes Carla!! There sure is something about the sound of rain on a roof, at night. And wind too. My son - at the age of two - stood out on the front porch on a windy day and announced that 'Wind was really just dry water'. (He's still like that - thank heavens)

LC - Always very glad to meet a long lost sister!! Grin. (Totally agree on Johnny Cash - but it's a good song!!). I love the blues. Always have. For total atmosphere, give me a cool, rainy Sunday drinking black coffee in some cosy dive with smokey blues playing.. Best place for making notes for something you're writing or webdesigning... or just for thinking about life, the universe, everything...

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:30 pm

lady cop wrote: sounds can be so evocative. every few hours i hear a train go by in the distance. when Bothwell was here last he commented on the sound of it. it is a lonely and melancholy sound. what sounds touch you?

Fog horns and the toll of bells on buoys. I lived in San Francisco years back and can still hear that sound in my head on foggy days.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:22 am

Children laughing on a summers day takes me back to my childhood.:-6

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:15 am

Fountains, waterfalls...moving water including sea shore.

Birdsong, particularly early morning .

Childs laughter

New lambs bleeting

Wind chimes

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:52 am

My son's voice

A creaking wooden swing

A wood screen door

Bullet's laugh

My grandfather's singing

The low rumble of a set of Vance & Hines pipes, drilled to hell and back

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:04 am

oh yes! rain on my roof ~~~~~and bagpipes.

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:06 am

lady cop wrote: ~~~~~and bagpipes.
Ohhhh...*sigh*......bagpipes...I forgot that one....

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:11 am

This is amazing. I've hardly ever met anyone before who actually liked bagpipes. They kind of hit me in the stomach!! I play sometimes with a piper. Bagpipes kinda go on the old scale system (modes) so my flute only approximately matches.. but what a buzz!!! (no puns intended)

An eccentric aside: I studied Irish Gaelic for three years - nearly killed me - and my final assignment was an essay on Uillean pipes. Grin.

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:15 am

i used to go to homecoming at carnegie tech with my Dad, pipers played. then the black watch at edinburgh. i adore the pipers. my favourite photo of my brother is standing on a heather-covered hill in scotland playing bagpipes.

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:24 am

One of the brothers in the Blue Angels plays the pipes. (Hence the tag "Piper") and will be playing at our wedding.

This is going to be the most un-conventional wedding in the history of marriage!!!

Sorry, not trying to hijack....back to the topic:

The sound of the furnace kicking on the first time in the fall.

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:03 am

What a visual, LC !!! And that reminds me BR - the crackle of a wood fire!!!

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:07 am

AussiePam wrote: What a visual, LC !!! And that reminds me BR - the crackle of a wood fire!!!oh god....you bring memories!

pantsonfire321@aol.com · Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:08 am

Birds twittering in the trees

The crunch as you wade through freshly laid snow

Thunder and lightning ...i love a good storm

The cry of a new born baby

Water trickling down a stream

Carol singers .. we dont get many but it always feels more like christmas

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:17 am

So do you LC. Great thread - congrats!! And pantsonfire - SNOW - YES!!! I love the crunch of fresh snow, and I love the swish of skis. And the sound of skates on ice.

weeder · Post by **weeder** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 4:14 am

The train in the distance... cant believe you mentioned it. It has always been one of the saddest sounds in the world to me. And the Bag pipes? Are like tears. Makes me think always of people who are gone. They play the bag pipes every night at 6 pm on the lawn of the lodge, on St simons Island.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 7:27 am

lady cop wrote: oh yes! rain on my roof ~~~~~and bagpipes.

I wanted rain and bagpipes. :-5

Bagpipes in the rain.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 8:15 am

ArnoldLayne wrote: Since I was a kid I've always loved the distant sound of an old prop plane flying overhead

Skylarks in the summer

I like the sound of an old prop plane when it runs into a skylark.

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 8:58 am

Oh wow!

Trains, bagpipes and listening to the crackling of a fire! There is just something about them!

Also the sound of oceans, rivers, etc. and the rustling of leaves on a windy fall day!:)

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:18 am

i can set my clock by the 3 AM train. it wakes me, but i go right back to sleep.

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:19 am

Chirping birds.....

Waterfalls

The haunting sound of an Indian Drum Circle sorry I can't explain it to anyone beyond it moving ones spirit.

The hustle and bustle sounds in an airport

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:21 am

I can tell you what I dont like.

But I wont.

Suffer.

I think Ill just keep you all on pins and needles.

pantsonfire321@aol.com · Fri Mar 24, 2006 11:38 am

Crickets ...always reminds me of far away places

churchbells ..

My cat purring ..makes me think they must be really happy

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:30 pm

I've always enjoyed the noise of summer evenings, thunder from the storm approaching, teens honking their horns on main street.

In the fall I love the roar of the dryers at the Coop, let's you know harvest in swing again.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:02 pm

tmbsgrl wrote: So funny. All my life I lived literally right next to the tracks. I was 5 when we moved in and 19 when I moved away from them. The sound of the train horn used to out me to sleep.. I couldn't go to sleep until I heard the train everynight around 10pm (they came every hour) I was start to dose off when I heard it real faint coming towards me.. By the time it was passed our house and turning faint again I'd be asleep.. Now I live in Arizona & there aren't any trains to put me to sleep. When I lay down for the night.. I hear a train in my head really faint.. I always ask Tim "do ya hear the train". I don't know if it is because I lived right next to them all my life or if I am just completely nuts!

But I REALLY hear a train coming and it makes me go to sleep.
That could be dangerous if you're sitting at a crossing.

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:03 pm

Nomad wrote: I can tell you what I dont like.

But I wont.

Suffer.

I think Ill just keep you all on pins and needles.
fine if you don't tell me yours

I shant tell you mine

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:04 pm

minks wrote: fine if you don't tell me yours

I shant tell you mine

PS bet my mine is better than yours HAH!

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:01 pm

lady cop wrote: i can set my clock by the 3 AM train. it wakes me, but i go right back to sleep.

LC and tmbsgrl you really both take me back. When I was little I grew up in one of Sydney's northern suburbs and at about 3am the freight train went clacking by, shaking my windows. I always heard it without hearing it, if you know what I mean. It must have been taking stuff from maybe Melbourne to Brisbane and must have been ten minutes long. What a nostalgia trip. Grin. My parents also had one of those westminster chimes clocks - that you learn to tune out at night.