Re: wind chimes (was Ergonomic Barriers)

["stoatwizard" stoatwizard]

--- In  "tk7859" <> wrote:
o'clock.  A
> neighbour's bamboo wind chimes are at 8 o'clock some 60 ft. away

An increasing curse in UK urban environments - and not just to backyard
nature recordists. I finally had to complain to my neighbour after two
weeks of broken sleep in the recent gales caused by his wind chimes in
the night. He looked at me as if I was mad and ventured surprise, he
thought it would be a 'soothing sound'... Perhaps he caught the
psychotic scowl sleep-deprivation gives you and agreed to muffle this
thing at night.

Perhaps as sound recordists we become more sensitised to noise than
normal people? Looking at the increase of this racket across town
either my fellow men have hearing loss of 20dB or there is some TV
makeover show where tinkling noise is the latest must-have to improve
their feng shui.