My neighbors are complaining about my piano playing.

Hello Readers.

I live in an apartment, and my neighbor directly below me complains about my piano playing. I play at odd hours, because I have a job, then I go to the gym, then I come home to play, so I play late.

I have a digital piano, Yamaha GT1, and so I started to use my head phones. He still complains about it. Still says he can hear my piano. So I guess that the vibration or the force bearing down on the keys is what he's complaining about.

Anyways, what can I put underneath my piano that would dampen the vibrations that might be transmitted through the floor?

I'm thinking about getting a thick wrestling mat. Anyways, your feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

You want a thick SHAG RUG.

; I have a digital piano, Yamaha GT1, and so I started to use ;my head phones. He still complains about it. Still says ;he can hear my piano. So I guess that the vibration or the ;force bearing down on the keys is what he's complaining about.

LOL. I had similar thoughts. Also , happy and prosperous 2004 to all.

Your wrestling mat idea might be more effective than the following, which I used in an old house where I lived above another apartment. I pasted a bunch of cork acoustic tiles to a large slab of cardboard, then cut a rectangle of carpeting to cover it. Then I lifted the piano onto the carpeting, which extended perhaps 4 inches beyond the piano in front and on both sides. Because it was an acoustic piano and was nearly against a wall, I also stuffed a few old comforters into the open sections at the back of the piano, to keep sound from traveling down the wall so easily. I think the piano was still really loud downstairs. But it was acoustic. Seems like headphones should take the curse off a digital piano....

A new neighbor.

You mean a new neighbor downstairs? Or put the neighbor under your piano to soften the sound?

Just keep a gun in the bench and tell them to go to hell.

Don

Is there any chance this guy doesn't actually hear the noise from the piano, but can tell when you are practicing because he hears you walk to that corner of the room? Or perhaps you make some telltale noises shifting the bench around as you play. And Then he phones up and complains about the noise from the piano.

In other words, now that you gave initial cause for complaint by playing with the speakers on, every noise you make will be the cue for some

Wedging the old neighbor under the piano may deaden the sound of the neighbor, making life with a new neighbor replacing him more peaceful.

Seriously, it's likely that the neighbor is hearing either your pedaling or the sound of your key strikes. I practice with headphones on my Roland keyboard late at night after the kids have gone to bed, and my son can still hear me from his room upstairs. The keyboard is in the carpeted livingroom on the ground floor of a house with a solid slab foundation, so it's definitely not from vibration conduction. The slope of the vaulted ceiling and the thinness of his bedroom door at the top of the stairs don't help, though, and probably exacerbate the problem.

The sound is much like very heavy raindrops hitting the roof and can be bothersome.

ou beat me to it. TS 'Don A. Gilmore' < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it > wrote in message

If it was me practicing, the neighbor would hear me saying 'gahdam sumbitch!' and worse all through the night.

Al Stevens