Music In The Shop

I have the TV on Speed TV. Never sure what’s on. Usually somebody talking.

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

E.S.P.N Radio, and classic rock.

Beatles rule!

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

NPR

-- Chelle http://artsgranddaughter.blogspot.com

Car Talk and Prairere Home Companion rule (spelling doesn’t).

Bill

-- Make Dust

Classic Rock or Alternative.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

60’s, 70’s ,80’s ,90’s and so on. I find my likes in music cover many years. I even like some of my son’s music. LOL. The key is keeping it loud enough to hear over my woodworking processes, but low enough not to disurb their peace. Really, the only time I hear it is in between operations, because I wear ear protection any time I’m using my power tools.

-- Jesus is Lord!

I pulled the speakers and CD changer/AM/FM/Cassette deck from a truck I got totalled out of. I built cheesy speaker boxes and mounted them on the rafters fore and aft of my saw table (four speakers). I got a Radio Shack converter to change 120v AC to 12v DC and use that to power the deck. With a converter cassette I can plug in my iPod and listen to every CD I own plus my wife’s collection and my stepson’s networked iTunes library (ripped to MP3 CD). I favor Classic Rock, Blues, goofy jug band performers like Ry Cooder, David Lindley, Dan Hicks, a little classical (Mozart, the first teenage rock star; Bach, Haydn, Grieg, Mendelsson, Respigi), a little classic country (Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Randy Travis, Patsy Cline). My wife has a huge load of contemporary Black Gospel-Praise music (The Williams Brothers, Dorinda Clark-Cole, Ann Nesby). I cover the bases, with the exception of Hip-Hop and Rap. If I can’t whistle it or attempt harmony I can’t go there.

I hear (small pun) that there is a Peltor Work-Tunes set of sound dampening headphones that accepts iPod input via a stereo mini-plug connection. Any one out there have a set of these?

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

I have recently discovered that listening to smooth jazz helps me cut accurate, I guess it’s because I’m not boobing my head or trying to remeber lyric and forgetting the measurements. Other than that, it all depends what I’m am in the mood for, but I like to save the bouncing music (Red Hot Chilly Pepers, Ramons,ect.) for clean up.

-- A man who moves mountains starts one stone at a time.

I Keep the satelite radio on classic Jazz.

-- Hope Never fails

I have a CD player that holds 301 CDs all clasic rock.
I just push the random button and i am set to go.

-- John in Cranbrook http://www.extremebirdhouse.com ....http://community.webshots.com/user/cranbrook2

I listen to the sound of the tools and the wood speaking to me.
No background music.

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Cool bean, John! That’s a great idea.

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

My radio comes on when I hit the light switch. Mostly MN Public Radio.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Wayne and I must listen to the same music…classic and alternative rock here as well….I do like some funk or reggae once in awhile too.

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org

Bob Marley rules…. Sublime as well. : ^ )

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

LJs
I love your ingenuity Doug. As I expected, a wide diversity of jocks rocking and talking out there, country to PBS, 60’s to current, Marley to jazz. Doesn’t suprise me that there are no hip-hop or rappers out there. I would rather have the hearing protection than those. For you jazz fans if you haven’t discovered Russ Freeman and the Rippingtons giv’em a try. Sat. mornings with Click and Clack are a regular.

-- DocK, WV

I usually have on my earplugs with headphone radio too. I been hung up on a good oldies station lately…but i’ll change around alot.

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

handtool’s time = podcasts
powertool’s buzz = no way to hear anything
general shop time = none / classical / opera / smooth jazz

-- Jojo, shopless in Kyoto · http://www.japanese-woodworking-tools.com/

I, too, like jazz and classical.
I have Sirius and XM off the satellite TV piped into the shop.

-- No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project.

14k songs on the ipod – with a lot of genres rep’d. i press play when i got in and never look back (well, except to see what happened to that kickback that shot across the shop…. whatthe#$)

-- kgriff, seattle

Car Talk, Jazz, and classic rock will have to take a back seat to Luciano who will be playing in the shop all this week. .......sadly missed.

-- DocK, WV

But at least he will be able to duet with Enrico Caruso now (as well as take his pick of rock guitarists to back him, should the new-found freedom inspire a change in style).

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

I enjoy the silence in the shop most of all.
My life is rather hectic otherwise.
If the radio does come on it classic rock or similar.
I had a rock and roll background as a youth.

“Western” and “story telling”music gives me the quivers. Sorry

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

I usually have the TV on . . . 2 channels so not much to choose from.

I particularily like working in the shop on Sunday mornings to listen to Traditional\Irish music on the radio.

-- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them

I used to listen to classics on Public Radio but for some reason my radio won’t work in the shop. Must be the distance. I listen to CD’s. usually Mike Rowland or Yanni or some other guy and a thing called Tao. Or the Bar J Wranglers or Ian Tyson or Don Edwards or Wylie and the Wild West or Bob Wills,. But never country. I tried that and wanted to get drunk, cheat on Carleen and beat the crap out of Moondog. I did keep the pickup truck.

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

What a voice!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VATmgtmR5o4

-- DocK, WV

Classic Rock.. cd’s mostly.

Classic and Country for me.

-- Bruce from Central New York

MP3 player with tunes across genres – hard/mellow/indie/country rock, country, bluegrass, jazz, r&b, blues, crooners. From the ‘50s to current. Usually play on shuffle. Sounds like kgriff, but at about 1/4 of his 14k songs!

I got a kick out of Aubster listening to Chili Peppers during clean-up. For me, I like their controlled chaos during glue-ups.

If Twins or Vikings are on, I’ll pipe the TV audio from the adjoining family room into the shop. If I stand at the east end of the shop, I can catch replays. Not many to watch this summer.

As others mentioned, sometimes I just click the tunes off, especially if I need to concentrate or clear my mind.

-- Dave J. Oakdale, MN

Yes indeed DocK… an amazing voice…

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

I’m a network talk radio junkie, on satellite radio or jazz.

-- Fred, San Antonio, Texas

Classic rock all the time. I agree with Thos. Angle “never country”

-- Dan, West Virginia, http://www.danpleskaCreations.com

XM Channel 15 The Village, Folk music l

Podcasts of Astronomy, otherwise a healthy dose of the band Tool!

-- Sometimes when I am building something and it is out of square, I just bend my square.

Love NPR too. Hard to pay attention to it though when I am working.

-- Sometimes when I am building something and it is out of square, I just bend my square.

I listen to a classical station from San Antonio, talk radio and recently I put all of my CDs, about 400 or more on an I-POD. I have just about every genre of music except rap which I hope never to understand. Being a child or the sixties I have quite a lot of sixties and early seventies rock. With age my music interests changed and most of my music now is jazz. When my wife or neighbors enter the shop it is sometimes embarrassing, but then again it is my shop and my world.

Care must be taken when using power tools. I don’t want to make too many mistakes or loose any digits.

-- Mark