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My children laughing is probably my favourite.

Wonderful theme !

As for me, my favourite sound is one of rain, in all the variations. I like rain when its drops patter into the window or into the roof of our country-house, when they rustle in the leaf or tap on an umbrella… I just love rain ! And there’s one song about it written by one of our singer-songwriters, Alexander Dolsky. The lyrics are beautiful and, of course, it would be better not to spoil them by clumsy translation in prose… Ah, I’d still like to post it!

The rains are strumming their sonatas on the keys of wet days. And drainpipes giving out the staccato aren’t inferior to organ in the richness of tones. And for so many years I’ve been waiting for that rainy weather from every November… I’ve been waiting and waiting – but vainly.
Oh, at last! It’s rainy September now. A fresh autumn has come, and clouds are hanging just like skew nets, and the month number eight is finally over.
Although I’m not as naive as was before, I still repeat over and over again, “Wait for the rains!” I cherish indistinct hopes while years pass away as if they were rains. The last one, my blue-eyed hangman, will get much work! And my thousandth rain will be only first cry for someone…
And if a curve of my life would lie on the palm like a way I could look to the future closing my eyes. No, probably, it would be better not to do that… Anyway, I’m at odds with destiny… The results of parades are known, but what will be the end of the battle?
Oh, at last! It’s rainy September now. A fresh autumn has come, and clouds are hanging just like skew nets, and the month number eight is finally over.

There it is ! The sound of rain on an umbrella was the one I thought of last night, but when I wrote this morning couldn't think of it. All that was coming to me was, "I know it's water." I seem to gravitate a lot to the water sounds, too. Perhaps because I'm a Pisces ?

Well we are 98% water, so I suppose we have a natural springing affinity with it?

Well, water, natural spring......
I'm trying my best

I came back to add, the sound of children laughing, especially a baby.

Yes, it looks like we love water just because we are made of it… At least, I’m a Taurus but water is my favourite element I think. Though, maybe I’m an aquatic Taurus…:shock:

I'm a water carrier. From the Age of ............

What is a water carrier Byron?

Aquarius

Oh, water carrier… that's amazing! Loving water so much I just can't but sympathize with a water carrier ...

A newer, fresher choice of sound, is that of the blood curdling scream as Avalaughnott is squeezed through the narrow end of an Amazonian Indian's Nose Flute. .......sideways!!
Nothing personal of course. This is simply a thread for those who muse upon lingering thoughts and sounds. (without prejudice)



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Talking about musical instruments......

there are some instruments which produce sounds that are more pleasant to the ear than others (depending how they are played!!!!)

Pan Pipes
Didgeridoo
Classical guitar
Saxaphone
Xylophone

to name a few

but I don't really care for........ now what instument grates on my ears???
..bagpipes? descant recorder? flute?

Pete

Bagpipes!!!!!!!!!!!! I hate them. Me learning violin was GBH of the ear 'ole too. I have this theory that people who can play instruments are often able to draw and paint and as I can do neither I rest my case

After reading your interesting answers I was thinking how it would sound a recording of all those sounds together in armony.
Well after all instruments have been made to reproduce nature sounds that are really nice to listen......(?)
As for the instruments more or less nice to listen to as Pete says it depends on other factors may be as the intermixture, the state of spirit etc.