opinions on music around the yard?

I like to hear music whilst on the yard - there's no radio but I make up for it by playing mine on my phone - in the stable.

Ponio likes it and we often take the music with us on hacks - I find it relaxing.

I wouldn't inflict my music on fellow liveries and switch it off if there's others about - don't think they'd appreciate my taste - I love very heavy metal :cool:.
 
It's for any business (which a livery yard would be classed as) that wants to play music that can be heard by so many people (2 I think)

You could be right in that customers aren't included but would be hard pressed to claim there were no employees in earshot at any time

It could well extend to customers because to play certain telephone 'on hold' music you need the licence and only customers get to hear that

After having dealt with them recently I think a yard would qualify as needing one

If you aren't sure you could call them

If you want to clip the wings if someone causing a nuisance with music I'd use it as an excuse
 
EKW said:
Well remembered! Yes, any place of work with more than 2 people has to have a lisence to play a bloomin radio! Totally daft but it is required!
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or if the PRS get hold of you ANY place of work (in their opinion it seems) needs a licence whether or not you have any mechanism of playing music or not. They really harrassed me for weeks and I kept having to explain no I have no radio, there's just me here and I am working not listening to the radio, and I don't even have speakers on the computer so no means of listening to anything bar on hold music if I happen to phone someone. Not even any music on my mobile it was that ancient a model! Took about 5 snotty emails and 1 very threatening about harrassment and involving solicitors for them to give up phoning me twice a day.
 
Just checked their website

If you class a livery yard as a leisure facility you need a licence fir clients who listen to music

If you class it as a place of work and clients can hear the music you need a licence

If the business employs one person but anyone else on site (clients) can hear the music you need a licence

Regardless of who owns the radio and plays it on site the property owner is liable if there is no licence

Seems pretty watertight.

You could argue that no one will find out of course but at work I refused to take the risk
 
One of the liveries puts the radio on while she's mucking out, which is fine as she's not very thorough, so she's not there long.:rolleyes:

I love the peace at the yard, the radio spoils that but generally grin and bear it as its not as loud as on the Op's yard.
 
^ just seen your post.
We were careful at work and only had certain tracks we could play on CD, never radio... I hadn't realised it extended to customers on site though. Guess it makes sense to stop loopholes.
 
At the stables where I ride, if it's only some of the older 'regulars' and the stable hands around then one of them will put their ipod on up on a shelf. We're all teenagers so like to have a bit of music on while we're filling up haynets, etc.

But,we'd never have it on when a client came in and we can't have it on when the younger kids are there - they're all 11/12 and are obsessed with boybands and stuff, whereas us older ones prefer our indie bands, lol.

If they're blasting it out it's not very considerate, I'd ask them to wear headphones.
 
riding_high said:
just wondering what peoples opinions are of liveries blasting out music from either radio/ipod on the yard?

we have a few liveries on the yard who do it and even go off riding leaving it switched on or they play it loud and then try to make conversation with you or keep it going when you are trying to discuss your horse with professionals.

i don't mind music within reason but when it's already busy on the yard (it's a socialable yard) and everyone is chatting i find the music to be a bit rude, so do a few others. also when i go to the yard i like to just sit in the stable with my horses and relax without any electrical noises (tv's, radios, etc), i can listen to music in the car! when i get home i have to put up with the tv or music from OH and kids so my time at the yard is (in my head) quiet time or conversation time depending on who is there.

when i say loud i mean it's so loud that you have to shout just talking to someone right next to you.
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Any sort of music blasting out is a no-no but carefully chosen music quietly played can soothe a fractious or frightened horse.

When I first got Horse I took the player into the stable and while I was working round him I played various types of music and observed Horse's reaction. Result : He doesn't like Mozart - seems to find it irritating. Definitely likes dance music of a by-gone age (Glen Miller, Benny Goodman, Arty Shaw), Really hates Radio One, Galaxy, etc. Is specially fond of Rod Stewart and Dinah Shore but gets depressed when he hears Leonard Cohen - but then, who doesn't?

However, I never let it disturb other people.

Why not speak to them about it and if this doesn't work turn it off.
 
I don't like music playing on the yard, as others have said I like the peace & quiet we have there. I like to hear the peaceful sound of horses munching on their hay, the birds singing etc etc. Sometimes a 'Natural Soundtrack' is infinitely better than a loud man made noise.

I also don't believe people should hack out with headphones blasting out music in their ears as they cannot hear traffic approaching from behind them.

I'm not against music all the time, I have it in my car & at home but never at the yard.
 
I like to have smooth radio on very quietly :o The horses seem to like a few gentle tunes whilst I'm farting about, but I always turn it off when other liveries are there.
 
my OH gets very irrate when the radio/ipod goes on as we know it will get louder and louder and then left on when they go riding, sometimes there's 2 radios going at the same time with completely different music then also everyone shouting to be heard, it's not a very relaxing place to be when that happens. we are all friends on the yard so we can tell each other off kind of thing but unfortunately when there's 3 of the culprits there it's a bit of a battle as they all want it on.
they left it on one day when they went to the shop so my OH launched it across the yard, it still bloody worked after that! lol.
i've had to phone the vet before (limited places on yard where you get a signal) i turned the radio off to phone and they turned it straight back on. i couldn't hear the vet so my OH burried it under the muck heap while i was on the phone.

there's a time, place and volume!

oh and my 1 horse loves a bit of queen!
 
I quite like music at the yard but wouldnt want it blasting out too loud. However, I do object to the person in the next stable singing along very badly and very loudly, like I have to put up with, but luckily thats only on weekends.
 
Sometimes I put music on, sometimes I don't. I only don't like it if people play crappy music i.e. music I don't like at a volume I can hear it, but its hardly worth getting upset about. Whereas if someone threw my radio/ipod across the yard, or buried it in the muckheap I would get very annoyed. If someone asked politely if they could turn it down because of making a call or a vet or farrier etc arriving, it wouldn't bother me, but if someone just started switching it off, then I'm afraid I would just switch it back on. If I was on your yard op & your oh was vandalising my property, he really wouldn't do it twice.
 
TelH said:
Music/noise at a yard is one of my pet hates :o The joys of having ponies at home, I don't have to put up with the noise others make :o
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Mine too. I once lived the other side of the road from a private home where they kept horses. The racket from the radio could be heard inside my house! I used to wonder why she didn't use a walkman, back in those days, if she had to have loud music.
Inside American barns it must be excruciating for the horses. I suppose they just switch off to it.
 
I would never want to have a stable next to someone who plays music.

Listening to music is a personal choice imo and what ear plugs are for!
 
EKW said:
Well remembered! Yes, any place of work with more than 2 people has to have a lisence to play a bloomin radio! Totally daft but it is required!
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It's actually quite a big fine, as my ex boss found out! The licence isn't cheap either.
 
amandap said:
Inside American barns it must be excruciating for the horses. I suppose they just switch off to it.
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We've always had it on in our barn, softly, all the time, it becomes a white noise and de-senstitises them. Hardly excruciating for them, and we've never had a horse exhibit signs of distress from the noise at all.

I'd usually turn it up when I was in there, as it was our own property and I could think of nothing worse than skipping out 6 boxes in silence...

That being said, anyone listening to music so loudly that people around them can't speak without raising their voices is pretty antisocial.
 
In our yard (just the YO, then I help when her when I can) we listen to radio 1 just as background noise, I don't like it when its really quiet. I don't think the main yard has the radio on.

I like the radio as long as its not too loud.
 
I like to listen to the radio when i'm mucking out.The up side to having my own yard is that i can play the radio as loud as i like and i do not offend anyone with my horrendous singing.
 
I don't like to have anything "inflicted" on me . . . if you want to listen to music, load up your iPod (or phone) and wear earphones - this is what my daughter does . . . you and I probably don't have the same music tastes and I certainly wouldn't inflict my old granny Radio 4 tastes on you, so don't expect to have to listen to your flavour of the month.

As for a quiet yard being boring, what rubbish . . . our yard is quiet and calm (except for the hay barn where YO insists on playing the worst local FM station going) and the result is quiet, calm horses. I love mucking out listening to the magpies on the stable roof hopping about and squabbling, or filling haynets with one of the resident robins singing at me . . . not to mention the gentle sound of contented horses shifting about in their beds and munching on their hay/haylage.

There's a time and a place for music on the yard - we had a birthday party for our oldest horse (he's 30) on New Year's Day and hooked up a radio on main yard to play music while we munched our bacon butties (the whole yard) . . . it leant a festive feel and we were all involved. Once the party was over and folks went back to regular yard chores, the radio was switched off.

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