what is your favorite sound/noise

wind blowing through trees
thunder
cello and bass clarinet played together
basketball going through the net (god, I love this one for some reason)

nature noises out in the woods
like patio - I like the nothing but net sound.
I like the sound of a turbo-diesel on heavy machinery
the googles of a young infant

not that I like it much - but the sound used to always get my attention. we live just over a 1/4mile from a busy intersection and
just about weekly there were wrecks there. You could hear the noise of tires skidding and then the crunch of metal. It was almost an automatic - call 911 until cell phones became so poplar. there's a light there now finally and accidents have fallen off sharply.

what is your favorite sound/noise
Human would have to be my grandchildren Amanda and Kira when I arrive laughing as they run toward me yelling Bapa Bob their name for me. There used to be the woman you loved saying I love you, but that's not there anymore and I miss it.

Mechanical sounds of a high powered car engine starting before settling into the steady but still nasty sounding idle.

Natural sounds there are lots. Tops would be the call of a hawk while banding them for US Fish and Wildlife during the fall migration. There are also waves breaking on the shore to be followed by the hiss of its return over the sands. The wonderful sound of a stream flowing loudly over a rock strewn bed.

Glass xylophone.

Satt, is that like a glass armonica? Those ARE nice! I like those too and also the clear high notes that some sopranos singers are able to sing.

I was wakened this morning by one of my favorite sounds... loads of sweetly chirping and very hungry songbirds... a nice combination of chickadees, juncos, nuthatches, finches, sparrows and robins.

I just came back from a week at the ocean and the sound of waves is very nice... from the crashing surf to the sussurations of gently lapping water and the bubbling of the sand as the tide draws back.

I'm very fond of the deep rumbling noises my horse makes when she greets me.

The sound of happy laughter from any age person may be the very best sound I can think of.

The satisfying "thud" from the impact of the foot when connecting for a field goal....

with a kitten going through the uprights.

And the "smack" from a baseball hitting the catcher's mitt.

That's a great one

Silence - where I live it is still sometimes attainable and when it happens it is breathtaking.

I have to agree with Eve - it's silence.

About a year and a half ago we were visiting friends in Florence, Arizona. About 15 miles outside of town there's a box canyon they took us to. I'm still shocked at the total and complete silence there. And I've wanted to go back ever since.

My kids laughing
Birds singing at the bird feeder
my husband pulling into the driveway
A chorus singing "carol of the bells"

piffka, you took the words right out of my mouth ~ except for the horses

birdchirps and tweets and trills
a good sportscar engine
my dog's little groans when he gets a good bunch of cuddles
the sounds of cooking, bubble bubble sizzle.
the sound of rain after the dry season is over.
ice cubes going in a glass
a garden fountain bubbling
friends voices on the phone
my name, called from afar
hearing fiddlers play in a meadow

A glass xylophone can make any scales of musical tone other than the well tempered scales in a fixed manner. This must be very interesting by itself.
In the natural scales, A sharp is different from B flat, though in the well tempered scales both are the same.
(See "On the Sensations of Tone" by Hermann Helmholtz, Dover.)

we have a rolled tin roof. I love the sound of a summer shower on the roof. Its enough to cause the NAP response.

Wind through a piney woods.
The sound of a baler, this is a sound that is a reminder tha were secure fir stock food for another winter

a slow clop clop and wheel sound of a slow moving buggy.

mockinbirds at 3 in the morning.

(not only glass, satt, "bones" as well: Bone Xylophone)

Bones must be good for flutes, or kenas, which seem to sound dark.
I love light sounds of glass.

BTW, the sound of "one hand clapping" is very hard to listen to.

I was going to say silence is my favorite sound.
It's deeper and richer than anything, and the listening is like vanilla ice cream half-melted in the summer.



But silence is very expensive these days.




:-) Please be careful out there...

The mind spins so noisily, that one has to actually sit
to catch ones Self in silence.

But don't let them catch You or you'll never hear
the end of it.

... tranquility rains.

The sound of "ond hand clapping" is far more rich than silence.