neighbours and sound of keys

I have a bit of a problem. I live in an appartment with neighbours under me. Sometimes when I come home from work I want to play some (digital) piano, but the problem is that I work well into the night and play between 01.00-01.30. They do not hear the music, because I use headphones, but they hear the clicking sound of the keys. Does anyone have the same experience? And solution? I already have pieces of eva-foam under the stand, and just moved the piano to another room.

Jis

WHAT??? You have to be kidding me???? That is ridiculous!!!! Either you play with a hammer against the wall or your neigbhours have their hearing aid turned up WAY to loud in the middle of the night!!! That cant be!!!

hear hear i agree man i use to live in an apartment and use to get drunk and come home and play my upright lol

cheesesandwitchs wrote:hear hear i agree man i use to live in an apartment and use to get drunk and come home and play my upright lol

hey my neighbour is deaf but my wifes hearing is excellent ,,,she tells me to shut up before i even speak

Well, my neigbours are very decent and nice people. The appartment is just very thin-walled. I do not want to keep them away from sleep or anything, but want to play when I want to play. When I play during the day I have to turn up the sound a bit, otherwise I hear the clicking of the keys too much myself. Is it a problem with every electronic piano/keyboard or just mine? (dgx 630-ypg 635)

Gr Jis

Seriously, when I play on my digital piano, the sound of the keys go right down into the floor, very hearable from the 1st floor. It seems the force hitting the hammers gets transfered down into the floor.

It's not loud tho, but you can hear the clicking. Might help if you get something to dampen the force better than the eva-foam ^_^

Mine is a Roland RD-300GX. I bet you will experience the same with a real piano, but a real piano makes sound.

ROBIN wrote:hey my neighbour is deaf but my wifes hearing is excellent ,,,she tells me to shut up before i even speak

The thunking of my keys is really loud, I could imagine it being a problem in an apartment at 1 in the morning.

I can only think of a couple of things that might help. The obvious is to rearrange your schedule. But I'm sort of in a similar situation where I can't really play much until my kids go to sleep, so playing at night is really the only time.

Another idea is to reserve the earlier and more acceptable times for the heavy banging. Then, for the late playing, use that time to learn new pieces and keep it as soft as possible (also, crank up your headphones to the max so you go deaf if you don't play softly).

The last idea is to get some sort of sound proofed shell type thing around your keyboard to eliminate the sound. Something like this:






nanu-nanu!

love the shell fists makes me laugh my bum off nanu-nanu mork rocks!!!

Hi,

Since I moved my piano to another room, the neighbours are ok. I just rang their doorbell to ask how they were doing with the pianosounds. They already told eachother that they thought something had changed.
She plays the piano too, and I gave her a copy of one of my waltzes. Yesterday I tried to make a recording and played it 40 times in a row with the sound up !

Cheers,
Jis

My piano makes sounds (well other than the "music" I make, but really don't know how you call it in english, it's the key release sound), too, at first it was very weird and bothered me (somehow didn't expect it to do that), but now I don't hear it anymore, I think I somehow focus on what I play and hear only that
The neighbor "closest" to my piano is a guy I hate anyway so I don't really care if he hears me or not at 2 am occasionally. He came over once to tell me about some problem and he behaved like he was some superior being or something, and I answered on a similar tone, so he doesn't even say hello since then if we meet (I sometimes greet him, by reflex). Hate these kind of people so if he can't sleep because of me, good. He should move then

Hahaha! Endre!!!
Thats just the way it is with our neighbors... hahaha...
if they feel disturbed if I play in the middle of the night... well... hmmm... =)
lucky them I never really actually play in the middle of the night.

Once, one of my neighbors came to me and complained about my playing: she criticized my interpretation of Bach...

My god, I practice a lot (4 - 6 hours a day), but never past 6 pm, and never on sunday... People are never happy... lol