# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/21 "2014-08-04T13:44:21Z")
Havin’ a toot. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/22 "2014-08-04T14:34:42Z")
is it Ella? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/23 "2014-08-04T14:37:47Z")
Your toilet wants you to play Musical Chairs. You’re not sitting down before the music stops, are you? ---
**Author:** ![DingoelGringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@DingoelGringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DingoelGringo)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/24 "2014-08-04T14:46:06Z")
Probably the kid in the apartment below yours has his boombox propped against hs toilet and the sound vibrations run up the pipe. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/25 "2014-08-04T15:31:37Z")
Here’s a tangent. I notice that if my electric guitar connection is a bit loose, that I pick up some sort of radio broadcast through the amp. 😕 ---
**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, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/26 "2014-08-04T17:16:03Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > You can hear the wind in our bathroom no matter what the weather’s doing. Breaking news! ---
**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, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/27 "2014-08-04T17:48:50Z")
> [@](#): > > it’s the aural equivalent of pareidolia First, publicly appreciating this beautiful phrase. Second, my office photocopier makes a distinctive set of tones that doesn’t sound like music, but I hum a little song over it, and when I hum that song outside the copy room, some of my coworkers ask, “What is that? Where do I know it from?” ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/28 "2014-08-04T17:57:15Z")
FWIW I live in a detached ranch house with a basement and I always seem to be hearing talking and/or music in the bathroom pipes. I figure it’s a combination of air flow and my own tinnitus. ---
**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, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/29 "2014-08-04T17:57:20Z")
Just to be clear, it is not a _plexiglas_ toilet, right? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/30 "2014-08-04T19:51:27Z")
Have you considered the possibility that [your toilet is haunted?](http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-789-j) ---
**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, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/31 "2014-08-04T22:58:39Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Have you considered the possibility that [your toilet is haunted?](http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-789-j) No such thing as ghosts. Could be [heavy-metal poisoning](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=542009) though… ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/32 "2014-08-04T23:10:41Z")
Your bathroom may have been designed by Bergholt Stuttley Johnson. If this is the case, I’d suggest nailing a large quantity of planks in front of the door. And don’t use the bath. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/33 "2014-08-04T23:42:57Z")
> [@Octarine](#): > > Your bathroom may have been designed by Bergholt Stuttley Johnson. If this is the case, I’d suggest nailing a large quantity of planks in front of the door. And don’t use the bath. Well, that’s just bloody stupid! (Nice username/post subject convergence, though!) ---
**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 5, 2014, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758/34 "2014-08-05T00:27:54Z")
> [@Octarine](#): > > Your bathroom may have been designed by Bergholt Stuttley Johnson. If this is the case, I’d suggest nailing a large quantity of planks in front of the door. And don’t use the bath. And watch out for weird noises–oh yeah. Right. I forgot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-music-playing-through-my-toilet/694758.md?page=1)