Reply To: Background Music While Working

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@Larynxa – I looked at that KPM website, and 5 hours later… some great music (by that I mean delightfully corny) there, browsed for quite a while (not quite 5 hours).

@kc5jck – Actual drafting is a lost art these days, which is a shame. I’ve done lots of house designs that I still have, and fully intend to build someday. Never designed hulls, but I lived aboard my boat for a year, and would do it again in a heartbeat- nothing like it. I essentially rebuilt the boat from the hull up, on the water. Really loved designing and building the interior, all the curves and angles.

My drafting teacher was the first person to explain the studies that showed that having lighter music on in the background actually improves work quality. That was before I could afford a Walkman, so I had two big stereo speakers mounted in the rafters over my table saw in my home shop. Just had to turn it up loud enough to hear over the saw and through my earplugs. I had a set of “isolation headphones” used by drummers, but I prefer to put in-ear phones on under a set of muffs now. I have excellent hearing, and have always protected it, even though noise is a huge distraction for me. What was the cartoon where the caterpillar was munching leaves and it was super-loud, think Donald Duck? That’s me, going nuts over noises that other people barely hear. If someone chews with their mouth open, or talks with food in their mouth, or chews ice; I will get up and walk away, because it drives me completely nuts.

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