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Favorite sounds (56 Posts)
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Another non-wet heat topic
I had another of my rambling thoughts as I listened to my favorite sound in the whole world last night -- the sound of a distant train whistle as the train passes over a crossing. I'm not talking about a crossing that is real close, one that is a few miles away.
The night air does something with the noise, making it soothing and relaxing, conjuring up childhood memories of riding the rails, envying the engineer and "caboose man" who has the opportunity to travel across the U.S., like wandering pioneers. There is just something about the gentle, distant sound that seems to put my mind at ease.
What sounds best to you?
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Birds singing
before dawn
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Mine...
Black bears hooting to each other off in the woods. First one calls, then another answers, then it gets quiet.
A few minutes later, it repeats, but they are closer together. It repeats again, until they get together, then it gets quiet.
I really enjoy it when they are from opposite directions from where I am. And keep getting closer....
Noel
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ONE I LIKE
HOW ABOUT THE SOUND OF A GAS VALVE CLICKING OPEN AFTER FLIPPING THE SWITCH AND THE JUICE GOING THROUGH ABOUT A DOZEN SAFETY CONTROLS YOU JUST FINISHED WIRING? THEN THE BEER CAN SOUND MAKES IT ALL WORTHWHILE.
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the sound of my beer can opening at the end of a long hot day!!!
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The steam locomotive whistle
They still ran steam locomotives (K-11 Pacifics) on the New York Central's old Adirondack Division when I was a kid. That whistle echoed thru the mountains in a way that you have to have heard to understand. It sounded different in the summer than it did in the winter, but it was incredible. Like the old song goes..."you can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles".
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Hey Scott,
You bring back memories.
I was stationed at the lighthouse in Port Clyde, ME, and it had a foghorn. The lighthouse in the Forrest Gump movie.
The horn was controlled by a device that looked like a traffic signal with two lights, rather than three. The top opening had a strobe light that fired out into the fog, or lack of fog. If the fog reflected it, a sensor in the lower tube would see it and turn on the horn, in the middle of the night.
Then I would land beside the bed, and have to change the sheets.
Noel
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Kids laughing!
funny how I can tell which one of the four it is too. But the number one has got to be dadddddy! I never get sick of hearing it! John@Reliable
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keeping with the nature theme, I would say
tree-frogs. They are surprisingly large too, here in the MD suburbs.
I also like the sound of my golf ball rattling in the cup. (It darn well better after 6-8 shots! This of course delays my time on the course, where I listen for tree-frogs...."
Mike
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Favorite Sounds
Mine would have to be two top fuel dragsters on the starting line, pre-staged and turning on the second fuel pump, ready to launch down the quarter mile @ 4.46 seconds @ 337 mph...Robert O'Connor/NJ
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Good one, Robert
I like the sound of a six engine Modified pulling tractor, as it winds up the superchargers and dumps the clutches. Like this one with 4 engines.....
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I like 43 cars side by side at Taladega.
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One of my favorite sounds....
...is the service manager saying that Mrs. Jones just called to say how happy she was with the work we did!!
Although the beer can thing is a good one, too!
Starch
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I second that.
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Cicadas and frogs on a warm July night—particularly at the base of Crowley ridge ridge near a lazy river with millions of fireflies going up the slope.
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Fav Sounds
Turkeys gobblin, coyotes howlin, Owls hootin, Partridge drummin & the grunt of a 250 lb. Whitetail buck.
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Thought of some more
425 CAT W/ open pipes and a jake brake, Fenway park, hearing my kids (twins) heart beats on the ultrasound. Can't hear them laugh yet!
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sounds
I love the sound of a passing thunderstorm. Relaxing and invigorating at the same time.
Gary from Granville
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sounds
The rattle,,,,,,,,, (collar with license & id tags) my best pals collar used to make,you always knew he was getting up to come see you. Bailey, our yellow lab, lost him after 13 1/2 wonderful years a year ago this past memorial day, his collar hangs on his urn, every once in awhile I give it a jingle when I've had a bad day,,,,,,,,,he can still make me smile
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I know the feeling...
my old yellow lab has been gone for over 25 years, and I still miss him. They are fantastic dogs.
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Ditto Heat Doctor
You will never look at thunderstorms the same after reading Psalm 29.
Regards,
PR
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I like
...... the sound of any American V-8 muscle car , 1960's - 70's, with a big cam shaft that can barely idle. John Deere two cylider tractors , any old tractor for that matter, B model Macks, Carlin 1050 & 1150's on high fire.
Church bells and antique grandfather clocks are ok too.
Quiet, quiet is good too, like when you are alone out in the woods during a snowfall.
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SOUND
An air vent, ventin air. AND THE BEER THING, AND THE KID THING.
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A family of coyotes
lives nearby and they howl a few minutes before we hear the trains coming through the area at night. So we get a double whammy. Seems the various engineers have a certain whisle blowing signature. Some say to alert their family that they are heading home.
Our coyote family must have a pack of young'ns learning the skills, currently.
Mechanically I love the sound of an old Spitfire (airplane) with those 12 cylinder Merlin engines, when they fly low overhead.
hot rod
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I like the train whistle too
and thunderstorms, and Panel Pulsing (Noel, you know what I mean!), and anything by Bruce Springsteen, and the sound of SILENCE when I start up a steam system we just fixed, and feel the heat but it's dead quiet.
But my most favorite sound? My wife's voice.
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Steamhead-you mention anything by Springsteen
and your wife's voice within the space of two sentences--what up with that? "Anything by Bruce Springsteen". Have you listenened to "Wild Billy's Circus Story" lately? I've got to admit, I can now listen to "Mary Queen of Arkansas" and smile. I used to ffwd that one. Did you marry a "Redheaded Woman"? I did; and in the words of another poet "...that has made all the difference."
Mike
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No, she's from Japan
but she's the same type of girl, without the red hair. In the words of yet another poet, she's "the one I thought I'd never find".
I always liked "Wild Billy's Circus Story" since Bruce did it a little differently from the other songs on "The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle". If you listen to "Mary Queen of Arkansas" and then to "The Rising" you can see how far he has come.
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C'n I sleep with you daddy
Sure sweetheart...c'mon....snrrrrrrrrr.
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Lots of aural joy
My 1 year old grand daughter Maggie Jean saying "Bumpa"
My wife saying "Hey Stever" in that husky alto voice of hers.
The first Baltimore Oriole of spring singing in the top of the big maple tree.
A big Weishaupt lighting off.
The roar of the waterfall here in town during the spring runoff. I'm a half mile away and it sound like a jet going over the house.
The first thunderstorm of spring and the accompanying smell of a warm rain.
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There are so many
Never realized how many sounds are my favorites. The sound of my children sleeping, breathing in and out contentedly. The sounds of the woods when I am out early for turkey or deer. Hearing that turkey yelping up on their roost or the soft steps of a approaching whitetail. The crackling of a good camp fire. Two sounds I greatly miss, the sound of my Dad's voice and the crack of his deer rifle.
Darin
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Sounds
It's got to be my son saying ''again daddy, again daddy'', as I would swing him round and round. Though he's to big to swing round now! But I'll remember that sound till I die.
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The sound of a marching pipe band in the distance as it gets nearer and nearer. Boy, that makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. I guess I'm very proud to be Scottish.
Thanks for reading.
Kind regards.
Jimmy Gillies.
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I would have figured you for,
"Pass the haggis!"
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Haggis.
Ah. Haggis, now Dan, that's a meal. Haggis, neaps & tatties.
Regards.
Jimmy.
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bagpipes
I lived in Cincinnati in the early 90's. Awoke one Sunday morning & decided to take our yellow lab hiking at a park called Sharon Woods. The park has a short but beautiful trail that runs through a ravine, with picturesque stream.It was very foggy that morning & shortly after entering the woods i began to here bagpipes, I could not see more than 10 feet in any direction just kept following the trail & the sound (kind of freeky considering the surroundings and time,7-7:30am). Having an over active imagination (& a love for history) it felt like a scene out of the "Last of the Mohicans", I kept looking for warriors clad in kilts (Black Watch?) It was a beautiful way to start a day and a memory with my friend (yellow lab Bailey see previous post)I shall never forget.
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Sounds
6:30 am loons calling and a 4lb. smallmouth splashing on the end of my line. ED
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Pipes.
What a great picture you have painted Jim, it sounds like a scene from Brigadoon.
Kind regards.
Jimmy.
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Are you
sure that wasn't TLM's voice saying:
"Time to go home boys".
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More sounds
The sound of one my kids sighing in their sleep. Kids laughing. The train or the fog horn. The bell tolling the hour from the town hall. Since 9/11 the sound of jets heading to the local airport.
David
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Music to my ears
I will vote for a distant train whistle on a bitter cold Winter night.
The sound of my son laughing with glee.
The strains of a Jerry Garcia guitar solo (ala Tennessee Jed)
The sound of my Boxer (Ozzie) snoring at night.
The first time I hear "Silent Night" during Christmas time.
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Last night
As I sat with my brother-in-law, sipping on a beer in his backyard in the great "up North" country of Interlochen, Michigan, I heard another of my favorite sounds -- nothing. It was totally quiet. Niiiice.
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Favorite sounds.......
Ah yes the sounds of little ones, no matter what age.
This past Saturday my 20 year old "wet-head" son, telephoned me after being away at sea for 56 days. His words "I love you dad I just want to come back home", still echo in my head. Due back this week, he asked if both my wife and I will be there when his ship returns. Of course!
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Hello Darkness my old Friend
I've come to visit you again
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My favorit sound.................
2:00 am no heat call,-5 degrees outside, house temp down to 50, been ther 2 hrs,THE BOILER FIRES AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NOTHING BETTER
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My favorite sound
It has to be "We are now entering United States air space and will be landing shortly." Coming back home from the Middle East after you have been there for 130+ days, it sounds great. The worst sound has to be air sirens. I can sleep though a tornado, but when they have a practice test of the air sirens here at home, I wake up right away.
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Just one of my favotite sounds...
Has to be the sound of the game of horseshoes. The clang of the shoe striking the post...the laughter of the uncles and cousins...playing on the 4th of July with family and friends behind our house brought back the memories of great extended family picnics from many years ago.
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I like it when..
my wife yells out the back door..
"Dinner's ready"
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