That wonderful 'sssrritch" noise thats made when an acoustic guitar player changes chords and their fingers are dragged across the length of the neck.
Rain on a tin roof or awning
The train horn blowing in the distance at night
Lawn mowers in summer
and even though I hate to say it, (and I’ll probably catch flack for it) that absolute silence in the sky that week after 9-11. I would stand outside just looking up and around, and it was just so quiet. Something we’ve never had all of our lives, and hopefully never will again. I live near a major airport, so I am very used to the constant sound, but that silence that week, made me feel like I had time traveled back a hundred years.
That Rustle-rustle-rustle-rustle-WHOOMP sound that a sail makes as it fills with air.
A perfectly struck golf ball from My club.
My son laughing/saying I love you/talking to himself.
The creaking you hear when you are in the middle of a stand of Pine trees.
Outdoors when it’s completely silent.
A Loon in the distance. (How very Minnesotan of me)
A bit weird, but the sound of walking away from a waterfall. How it gets quieter and quieter until it’s gone.
The sound of my daughters when they are laughing.just right and she goes over the top…
Andre Codresceu’s Romanian-American voice speaking his nearly poetic essays on the radio.
The song of a thousand trees in a late summer wind.
Cicadas singing loudly enough to make me forget the ringing in my ears.
Fishing line zizzing off the reel as the lure flies over the water.
The crack of a wooden bat on a baseball in late spring.
The sound of a pool ball falling into the pocket.
And we go through great efforts to minimize that sound
The sound of hitting a golfball perfectly square. and the sound of the coffee pot when the last few drops of water run through it.
The sound of the stickman on a crap table as he announces “Winner On The Ten, Hard Ten Winner !”
Zebra
March 19, 2004, 3:38am
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The sound tires make as you drive through a gravel parking lot.
Old pin ball machine sounds.
The sound of waves on the beach. At night.
Hearing someone moan your name in ecstasy.
I agree, trains off in the distance at night is very pleasant and relaxing.
Birds calling to each other outside my window.
My husband’s voice, especially when he giggles.
My cats purring. One of my cats purrs loud enough to be heard on the other side of the room.
Cicadas on a summer evening.
davos
March 19, 2004, 4:21pm
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My children’s voices, especially when they are laughing. Can’t imagine anything more beautiful.
The sound rain when it first starts hitting the ground at the beginning of a good thunderstorm, espeically when its been dry out for a time.
The crack of lightning.
a crackling fire.
the noises of a early summer evening out in the country.
wonky
March 19, 2004, 5:05pm
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Like so many on this thread, I love the sound of a cat purring.
Also,
The staticky scratch and pop of an old record when the needle comes down.
A trumpet with a mute in.
Tires on gravel.
My husband’s voice, especially when he’s talking to the cats.
A brass choir.
The coluratura parts in “The Magic Flute.”
Placido Domingo.
Baseball on the radio, especially from old Tiger Stadium. You could hear the pitches hit the catchers’ mitts. Amazing.
The groan my sister’s Newfoundland makes if you rub his ears.
Corduroy pants legs rubbing together.
Tree frogs.
Lix0r
March 19, 2004, 7:42pm
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I’m surprised no one’s said “A bowling ball hitting bowling pins” yet. It’s hard to beat that.
