Favorite sounds

John R. Hall

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?

DanHolohan

Birds singing

before dawn

Unknown

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

Deanie

can

the sound of my beer can opening at the end of a long hot day!!!

Mark Hunt

Fav sound?


My kids laughing.

Mark H

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ScottMP

It takes alot to laugh

It takes a train to cry ( Dylan)

The Fog Horn at night when I am lying in bed.

Scott

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BillW@honeywell

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".

Mike Reavis_2

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

Unknown

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

Robert O'Connor_7

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

John Starcher_4

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

Unknown

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.....

Dave Yates (PAH)

Thinking back to reading to the young lad every night

"I love you Dad"

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Mike Reavis_2

I second that.

ScottMP

I still here it

But now ya got me all misty eyed.

MY friend was with me at a car show and they had a dragster on display.

He said " No wonder they hate us in the middle east, they have the oil, But we know what to do with it ".

Scott

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John@Reliable_9

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

Mike T., Swampeast MO

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.

EJW

Fav Sounds

Turkeys gobblin, coyotes howlin, Owls hootin, Partridge drummin & the grunt of a 250 lb. Whitetail buck.

GaryDidier

sounds

I love the sound of a passing thunderstorm. Relaxing and invigorating at the same time.

Gary from Granville

Jim Walls

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

Bill Nye

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.

sootmonkey

SOUND

An air vent, ventin air. AND THE BEER THING, AND THE KID THING.

Steamhead

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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EJW

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!

bob young

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.

Jamie_6

I used to think it was the ocean crashing on the beach.

Then I was blessed with a child.

And there is nothing in the world like a little sweat voice which has wings.

"Daddy"

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Brian (Tankless)

C'n I sleep with you daddy

Sure sweetheart...c'mon....snrrrrrrrrr.

steve gates

I like 43 cars side by side at Taladega.

Mike Reavis_2

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

Wayco Wayne_2

I like

the sound of a trickling stream. I once rented a cabin on the Appilacian trail right next to a stream and it could lull me to a wonderful state of relaxation. I also like the sound of my dogs toenails clicking across the floor coming to get a head scatch from me while I watch TV. WW

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hr

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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S Ebels

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.

Darin Cook_3

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

Paul Rohrs_2

Ditto Heat Doctor

You will never look at thunderstorms the same after reading Psalm 29.

Regards,

PR

Dan Foley

Sounds

The "click" of a well struck three iron and the "thump" of a Titleist hitting the green. The sound of the drag letting out line with a 30 lb. rockfish on the other end.

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BillW@honeywell

I know the feeling...

my old yellow lab has been gone for over 25 years, and I still miss him. They are fantastic dogs.

Jimmy Gillies

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.
OR
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.

DanHolohan

I would have figured you for,

"Pass the haggis!"

ScottMP

ahhh the pipes

Good One Jimmy. It does make the hair stand on end.

Scott

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Ken_8

The late Bill Evans playing

any tune. On any piano. At anytime in his short and tragic career.

Closely followed by the runner-up of: Dan's voice after we both quaffed about 20 pints o' Guinness.

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jackchips_2

Are you

sure that wasn't TLM's voice saying:

"Time to go home boys".