# Why is there music playing through my toilet? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 4, 2014, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758 "2014-08-04T03:44:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cardboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Cardboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardboard)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/1 "2014-08-04T03:44:01Z")
This is not a lie. Every once in a while, like tonight, I hear music playing through my toilet. I’m not nuts. I had someone corroborate that there was in fact music playing through the toilet. It’s muffled, but it is most definitely there. Tonight, it was a rock song. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/2 "2014-08-04T03:49:33Z")
House or apartment? Either way, it’s just coming through the drain pipe. Where I work, if the situations are just right, when in the bathroom, I can hear the people in the next room over through the floor drain. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/3 "2014-08-04T04:21:48Z")
Handel’s Water Music? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/4 "2014-08-04T04:26:28Z")
Are you Big In Japan? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/5 "2014-08-04T04:26:30Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > Handel’s Water Music? Win. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/6 "2014-08-04T04:31:38Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > Handel’s Water Music? I hate that crappy classical stuff. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/7 "2014-08-04T04:40:08Z")
Is the water level low in the toilet? I can’t think of any reason sound would travel through a sewage pipe unless the trap wasn’t filled with water. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/8 "2014-08-04T04:55:22Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Is the water level low in the toilet? I can’t think of any reason sound would travel through a sewage pipe unless the trap wasn’t filled with water. More likely, it’s sound traveling down the vent stack. When it’s stormy outside, I can hear the rain and the wind in our basement bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/9 "2014-08-04T05:03:04Z")
Sign above a toilet: Please wiggel Handel. Written below on the sign: If I do, will it wiggel Bach? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/10 "2014-08-04T05:09:19Z")
Is it Tori Amos? _Here in my Head_? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/11 "2014-08-04T05:18:02Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Sign above a toilet: Please wiggel Handel. > > Written below on the sign: If I do, will it wiggel Bach? Your toilet’s baroque. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/12 "2014-08-04T05:32:08Z")
Maybe the same guy that installed Laurie Partridge’s braces installed your toilet. ---
**Author:** ![rock\_party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@rock\_party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rock_party)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/13 "2014-08-04T06:01:49Z")
I think it happened with Gilligan’s back molars too. CALL THE PROFESSER! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/14 "2014-08-04T06:33:11Z")
So, before you go to the hardware store to get parts to fix this, you need to make a Chopin Liszt. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/15 "2014-08-04T07:26:44Z")
The shower had another gig? ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/16 "2014-08-04T08:00:17Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I hate that crappy classical stuff. My boy, it is you who is making it crappy. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/17 "2014-08-04T09:45:36Z")
Scat music? Hot poop? A major turd? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_great_unwashed/32/4791_2.png) [@The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/18 "2014-08-04T10:24:57Z")
Piped Music? But seriously, are you sure it’s not just the sound of water in the pipes? I had a toliet once that would play symphonic chord progressions, it’s the aural equivalent of pareidolia. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/19 "2014-08-04T12:16:03Z")
Michelangelo: Sorry. _turns down boombox_ ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/20 "2014-08-04T13:34:30Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > When it’s stormy outside, I can hear the rain and the wind in our basement bathroom. You can hear the wind in our bathroom no matter what the weather’s doing. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758.md?page=2)