I very much dislike hearing ANY recorded music in the campground, but I would get a kick out of hearing someone playing a banjo or acoustic guitar for a while - but just for a while! If you are good, you just might look up and find DW and me beside your fire.
Since you asked.... We could enjoy it (for awhile) drifting in from afar, but if you were right next to us in a "pack-em-in" campground I'd hope you'd keep your session real short. We wouldn't likely complain either way, but even if we liked the music we probably wouldn't want to hear it for hours on end. We enjoy bluegrass, but there are times we enjoy quiet too.
I love banjo! I'm going to a Bluegrass festival this weekend. I play guitar, UB, pedal steel and noodle around with other instruments as well. I take my guitar, but I play inside.......I'm the guy that went for the peace and quiet and I try real hard not to make much noise. Here I am on my Tele
I like my music loud when I'm working in the group, but not when I'm at the CG.
wayne_tw wrote: I would find it very annoying and as obnoxious as a radio blarring. I want to get away from noise and experience peace and quiet. Remember anything you do that infringes on another is unacceptable.
Don’t you think your infringing on this guy if you bar him from playing his banjo while he's camping? How can anyone relax or have fun if you have to tip toe around afraid you might offend someone.
I duno. I classify the banjo somewhere between the accordion and the bag pipes. Not really my cup of tea but to each his own.
The Wife and i like to listen to a little Diana Krall while dining and little Metalica just before retiring for the night.
I guess as long as its not to loud and it all stops at 10PM its ok by me.
"Don’t you think your infringing on this guy if you bar him from playing his banjo while he's camping? How can anyone relax or have fun if you have to tip toe around afraid you might offend someone."
So not playing the ___________ (fill in blank with appropriate obnoxious instrument, drums, cymbals, harmonica, stereo, Tuba, et.al) is equated by you to having to tiptoe around? I don't really see the comparison myself.
bumpy
Bumpyroad wrote: "Don’t you think your infringing on this guy if you bar him from playing his banjo while he's camping? How can anyone relax or have fun if you have to tip toe around afraid you might offend someone."
So not playing the ___________ (fill in blank with appropriate obnoxious instrument, drums, cymbals, harmonica, stereo, Tuba, et.al) is equated by you to having to tiptoe around? I don't really see the comparison myself.
bumpy
Ok let me break it down for you.
“Tip toe around” = having to be overly sensitive to what others may or may not find to be obnoxious.
There are obvious sounds that are obnoxious to all such as a baby crying loud non stop, profanity, screaming, generators going on to long or to late or to early etc.
Any loud sounds that go on to long and or to late into the evening really.
Ask anyone and the vast majority would agree.
Then there are sounds that are not so obvious. That is to say that if you ask 10 people you would get varying results. As you can see by the answers in this thread, the Banjo is in the not so obvious catagory.
All I was saying is, that if people are intolerant to things that are not so obvious, it creates an even bigger problem and makes everyone uncomfortable having always to decide if the smell of their food on the BBQ is annoying or is the hat I’m wearing pissing someone off etc. thus the“tip toe” expression.
I personally tighten up when I hear a banjo in the wilderness. It reminds me of a disturbing Burt Reynolds movie I saw as a teen but being that this is not in the obvious category, I will tolerate it respecting others sense of enjoyment as long as it does not go on to loud to long to late or to early.
DW and I agree that common sense, respect for others and tolerance is the key.
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