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Originally Posted by Locke
The rolling eyes emoticon is there to point out that your 'shock' at bothering neighbors is ridiculous. Not to mention you basically eliminated the prospect of coming to an amicable conclusion between two (purportedly) civilized individuals.
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I don't think my 'shock' is ridiculous. I'm on a condo board and I think it's incredibly rude to play music, or have a barking dog, or any other noise that your neighbours are forced to hear at an unreasonable level. Some things, like mowing your lawn, are reasonable. Some things, like drumming, are less reasonable.
I'm not sure how I eliminated the prospect of coming to an amicable conclusion? Define 'amicable'. If the neighbours hear the noise, and they don't like it and don't want to be subjected to it, what's your amazing amicable compromise? That the neighbours just put up with it, at their inconvenience? That the drummer stop? Where's the half-way? Either it disturbs the neighbours, or it doesn't. If it does, drummer has to get the volume down to a point where it doesn't. That's my definition of 'reasonable', obviously not shared by everyone.
When you have a noisy hobby, it seems pretty obvious that there would be noise-related consequences that you, as the noise-maker, have to deal with.