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Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
I must confess I sometimes do. I find Dick Gossip's fun to play, for instance, but probably highly annoying to some listeners -- at least on fiddle where you can slide into many of the notes. It creates a somewhat repetitive ear worm of a tune. Which is, perhaps, what makes it so effective .... and, let's face it, rather catchy too.
So could we say then that Irish music's purpose is not only to entertain and elevate the soul, but also to annoy others as one sees fit? Is this a base and heinous use of a a beautiful musicl form?
Re: Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
Not specifically, but I can still be annoying.
It seems to be possible for either one of us to be be able to play or practise tunes and still be able to concentrate on whatever is on TV at the same time
BUT Not
when the other one is doing it.
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My favourite joke:
"Get your hat and coat on love, I'm off down the pub"
"Ooh, darlin', you don't usually take me with you"
"I'm not. I'm turning the heating off when I go out!"
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I find my hot water bottle collection (of the famous) littering the house is enough to annoy my sig other without recourse to playing annoying tunes. Although my rendition of selections from Trout Mask Replica on my Indian Harmonium get them hollerin’!
Re: Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
I sometimes play the first phrase of particular tunes she likes, quite softly. Usually it's enough to get her to grab her fiddle to join in and derail whatever productive time she had planned.
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Herself is not that much of an issue. I practise while she's in the shower and then after sheleaves for work. The poor dog has to put up with it. (Dog doesn't mind D whistle. but when I play a high F he runs and hides. Also likes my saltarelle, but moans when I play the really dry tuned Guistozzi in the upper octave)
It's the baby daughter who can be a nuisance. "Dad, how can you play two of the most annoying instruments?' (whistle and box). She forgets we had to put up with her when she was learning her a cappella choir thing many years ago.
But she lives in another City, so I only get to annoy her a couple of times per year.
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I don't need to play tunes to annoy the wife, I can do that with the sheer force of my personality.
Strangely, though, my 7 year old desexed male cat gets very excited when I play tunes in the higher register. He starts singing, then climbs onto my right arm and starts humping it while biting me. Makes Dick Gossip's a bit tricky, I can tell you.
Re: Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
There's a set of hornpipes (I play at home only) made up of McDermott's, Eugene Stratton and the Banks that the wife particularly dislikes. These I keep for when I'm alone. But if it comes to annoying for the sake of annoying, there's nothing like Music for a found harmonium. Especially on banjo.
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Being a beginner at this, my tunes can be fairly globally annoying so there is no need to direct them against any one person. Never occurred to me to play with passive aggressive intentions...hmmmm...I learn so much here
janmarie
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never. I do feel bad though when I decide to play the same part of the tune for about 10 minutes while thinking about exactly what I want to do with it. I imagine he is on my side upstairs, and feeling as victorious as I do, when I finally like it, but, I get a feeling he is oblivious. As well as my daughter who has given up Irish music of for Beatles songs on her guitar. She's brilliant though, and he seems to like her practice better. garrr popular music.
Re: Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
Everything I play annoys the missus. Except every once
in a while she'll give me a puzzled look and say "I think you're
sounding better now". I would never do anything to deliberately
annoy her -- there's so much that annoys her that's _not_
deliberate!
Re: Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
Yes, mostly anything Irish she doesn't like, although I'm wearing her down slowly as she asked to learn the tempest and the antrim rose a few weeks ago. And there are a few she has admitted she likes, just not the ones that sound too irish. Jock fiddler snobbery IMO.
Also if I play any of her repertoire, that really winds her up. Not all of her repertoire just the ones she's made her own, reckons I plant the wrong notes in her mind subliminally. Best gifts don't all come in perfect packages, eh.............
Re: Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
My wife isn't a musician and she was unfamiliar with Irish music before she met me. Ever since we met, I have been trying to corrupt her by teaching her to enjoy and appreciate Irish music. She even attends the local sessions with me now.
However, what really annoys her is when I play or have to play one tune over and over again--ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
Re: Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
No, like some others say above, I do enough to annoy her without trying to deliberately! In fact, whistle practice always takes place when she is not at home--there is nothing more irritating that a high pitched instrument going over the same phrases over and over!
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I play Beethoven's quartet in A minor on my CD player at about 11.30 in the evening which is guaranteed to get her to go to bed, after which I can sit up and drink at least two or three more glasses of Chilean cabernet sauvignon that she doesn't know I'm having. It's mutually beneficial. She gets the excessive amount of kip she appears to need and I get all p*ssed and emotional due to the Heiliger Dankgesang in the Lydian mode. it's all kind of symbiotic, or commensal, or whatever. Jeez, if I had a glass eye I'd be bringing tears to the bugger just thinking about all this and life's other rewards. Thanks for asking. I'm filling up here.
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Pamela Connolly's reference to husband Billy...
"How many banjo pickers does it take to change a lightbulb ?"
" Only one, but he does it over and over and over again.....".
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My wife has the amazing (to me) ability to block out sound, though usually she's off to work by the time I start practicing. My cat, on the other hand, deploys all manner of cute murrs and meows to distract me from what I can only presume she thinks of as "the screechy thing."
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I found something this weekend that does annoy Herself.
The Garryowen
My teacher is once again trying to get me to improve my rhythm and I suppose since it was allegedly used as a marching piece by General George Custer and his Troops, he thought I would get the idea of the cadence.
After playing it, perhaps we now can surmise the real reason the Indians did them in at Little Big Horn! The Garryowen played by buglers.
Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
I must confess I sometimes do. I find Dick Gossip's fun to play, for instance, but probably highly annoying to some listeners -- at least on fiddle where you can slide into many of the notes. It creates a somewhat repetitive ear worm of a tune. Which is, perhaps, what makes it so effective .... and, let's face it, rather catchy too.
So could we say then that Irish music's purpose is not only to entertain and elevate the soul, but also to annoy others as one sees fit? Is this a base and heinous use of a a beautiful musicl form?
# Posted on March 26th 2010 by skin&bow
Re: Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
Not specifically, but I can still be annoying.
It seems to be possible for either one of us to be be able to play or practise tunes and still be able to concentrate on whatever is on TV at the same time
BUT Not
when the other one is doing it.
# Posted on March 26th 2010 by Johnny Jay
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It's bloody annoying enough as it is, without doing it on purpose.
# Posted on March 26th 2010 by ...
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Not surprised mtodd does that - he is just generally annoying anyway
# Posted on March 26th 2010 by 'S dat you, O'Flibberty?
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But at least it gets you out of the house:
"Will just feck off and go down the pub and do that, you feckin annoying t w a t."
# Posted on March 26th 2010 by ...
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My favourite joke:
"Get your hat and coat on love, I'm off down the pub"
"Ooh, darlin', you don't usually take me with you"
"I'm not. I'm turning the heating off when I go out!"
# Posted on March 26th 2010 by RichardB
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Claire, it's just that I like to mutli-task while playing. You know?
# Posted on March 26th 2010 by skin&bow
Re: Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
I find my hot water bottle collection (of the famous) littering the house is enough to annoy my sig other without recourse to playing annoying tunes. Although my rendition of selections from Trout Mask Replica on my Indian Harmonium get them hollerin’!
# Posted on March 26th 2010 by yhaalhouse
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Michael
Hmmmm....do you think now that's maybe why they invented pubs?!!
# Posted on March 26th 2010 by skin&bow
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My wife is 7 months pregnant. That would be cruel.
# Posted on March 26th 2010 by Jimmy B
Re: Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
I sometimes play the first phrase of particular tunes she likes, quite softly. Usually it's enough to get her to grab her fiddle to join in and derail whatever productive time she had planned.
# Posted on March 26th 2010 by TaoCat
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Yes Jimmy, good man. You've get her quite 'annoyed' already.
# Posted on March 26th 2010 by SWFL Fiddler
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My lass plays tunes and hates polkas. I snore in 2/4, so it's a no brainer, really. Easy as pie.
# Posted on March 26th 2010 by SWFL Fiddler
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The opposite of this thread is when she's cooking something delicious, then I stick to the jigs and reels, perhaps an air or two.
# Posted on March 26th 2010 by SWFL Fiddler
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Herself is not that much of an issue. I practise while she's in the shower and then after sheleaves for work. The poor dog has to put up with it. (Dog doesn't mind D whistle. but when I play a high F he runs and hides. Also likes my saltarelle, but moans when I play the really dry tuned Guistozzi in the upper octave)
It's the baby daughter who can be a nuisance. "Dad, how can you play two of the most annoying instruments?' (whistle and box). She forgets we had to put up with her when she was learning her a cappella choir thing many years ago.
But she lives in another City, so I only get to annoy her a couple of times per year.
# Posted on March 26th 2010 by zippydw
Re: Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
I don't need to play tunes to annoy the wife, I can do that with the sheer force of my personality.
Strangely, though, my 7 year old desexed male cat gets very excited when I play tunes in the higher register. He starts singing, then climbs onto my right arm and starts humping it while biting me. Makes Dick Gossip's a bit tricky, I can tell you.
# Posted on March 27th 2010 by bc_box_player
Re: Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
There's a set of hornpipes (I play at home only) made up of McDermott's, Eugene Stratton and the Banks that the wife particularly dislikes. These I keep for when I'm alone. But if it comes to annoying for the sake of annoying, there's nothing like Music for a found harmonium. Especially on banjo.
# Posted on March 27th 2010 by Fanning
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>> But if it comes to annoying for the sake of annoying, there's nothing like Music for a found harmonium.
Ain't THAT the truth.
# Posted on March 27th 2010 by DaveL35
Re: Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
Being a beginner at this, my tunes can be fairly globally annoying so there is no need to direct them against any one person. Never occurred to me to play with passive aggressive intentions...hmmmm...I learn so much here
janmarie
# Posted on March 27th 2010 by janmarie
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everything annoys her, so my choice of tunes dosent matter...lol
# Posted on March 27th 2010 by Barry1963
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never. I do feel bad though when I decide to play the same part of the tune for about 10 minutes while thinking about exactly what I want to do with it. I imagine he is on my side upstairs, and feeling as victorious as I do, when I finally like it, but, I get a feeling he is oblivious. As well as my daughter who has given up Irish music of for Beatles songs on her guitar. She's brilliant though, and he seems to like her practice better. garrr popular music.
# Posted on March 27th 2010 by SandyBottoms
Re: Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
Everything I play annoys the missus. Except every once
in a while she'll give me a puzzled look and say "I think you're
sounding better now". I would never do anything to deliberately
annoy her -- there's so much that annoys her that's _not_
deliberate!
# Posted on March 27th 2010 by Hup
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I'm with you on your last sentence, Hup.
Absolutely !
Fortunately, most of the stuff we play together there's a reasonable consensus on.
# Posted on March 27th 2010 by Guernsey Pete
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Yes
# Posted on March 27th 2010 by Alex Wilding
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no.
# Posted on March 27th 2010 by Dick Miles
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I can't talk and play at the same time, so I annoy my wife less when I'm playing than when I'm not.
# Posted on March 27th 2010 by Steve L
Re: Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
Yes, mostly anything Irish she doesn't like, although I'm wearing her down slowly as she asked to learn the tempest and the antrim rose a few weeks ago. And there are a few she has admitted she likes, just not the ones that sound too irish. Jock fiddler snobbery IMO.
Also if I play any of her repertoire, that really winds her up. Not all of her repertoire just the ones she's made her own, reckons I plant the wrong notes in her mind subliminally. Best gifts don't all come in perfect packages, eh.............
# Posted on March 27th 2010 by Solidmahog
Re: Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
My wife isn't a musician and she was unfamiliar with Irish music before she met me. Ever since we met, I have been trying to corrupt her by teaching her to enjoy and appreciate Irish music. She even attends the local sessions with me now.
However, what really annoys her is when I play or have to play one tune over and over again--ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
# Posted on March 27th 2010 by fauxcelt
Re: Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
No, like some others say above, I do enough to annoy her without trying to deliberately! In fact, whistle practice always takes place when she is not at home--there is nothing more irritating that a high pitched instrument going over the same phrases over and over!
# Posted on March 28th 2010 by AlBrown
Re: Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
I play Beethoven's quartet in A minor on my CD player at about 11.30 in the evening which is guaranteed to get her to go to bed, after which I can sit up and drink at least two or three more glasses of Chilean cabernet sauvignon that she doesn't know I'm having. It's mutually beneficial. She gets the excessive amount of kip she appears to need and I get all p*ssed and emotional due to the Heiliger Dankgesang in the Lydian mode. it's all kind of symbiotic, or commensal, or whatever. Jeez, if I had a glass eye I'd be bringing tears to the bugger just thinking about all this and life's other rewards. Thanks for asking. I'm filling up here.
# Posted on March 28th 2010 by Steve Shaw
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Herself says, "For the first 500 times it doesn't suck". Such a smooth talker.
# Posted on March 28th 2010 by jrathbun
Re: Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
Pamela Connolly's reference to husband Billy...
"How many banjo pickers does it take to change a lightbulb ?"
" Only one, but he does it over and over and over again.....".
# Posted on March 28th 2010 by Guernsey Pete
Re: Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
My wife has the amazing (to me) ability to block out sound, though usually she's off to work by the time I start practicing. My cat, on the other hand, deploys all manner of cute murrs and meows to distract me from what I can only presume she thinks of as "the screechy thing."
# Posted on March 29th 2010 by rdi
Re: Do you ever play tunes to specifically annoy your significant other?
I found something this weekend that does annoy Herself.
The Garryowen
My teacher is once again trying to get me to improve my rhythm and I suppose since it was allegedly used as a marching piece by General George Custer and his Troops, he thought I would get the idea of the cadence.
After playing it, perhaps we now can surmise the real reason the Indians did them in at Little Big Horn! The Garryowen played by buglers.
# Posted on March 29th 2010 by zippydw
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Q. What does the bodhran players wife do before she makes love?
A. She drives him to work.
# Posted on March 30th 2010 by banjoburger
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the garryowen should never be played on little big horns.
# Posted on March 30th 2010 by Skull Duggeraigh Dubh