How many hours a day do you listen to classical music? Poll!

[Harry]

OK, no more windmills. But would put a few pretty Dutch girls in their pretty Dutch traditional outfit, holding huge wheels of Gouda cheese in the background when you dance?

Again a cliche my friend. They are only in Gouda, and only for the tourists.
Give me a nice Chinese girl anytime, about my height, in traditional outfit, with a little bowl of rice, and a few sticks to...........with, and that would be a fine realistic image me thinks.

[Florestan]

put a few pretty Dutch girls

Harry, my friend, I don't mean any offense, but I can't resist: the appropriate answer would be this:

We have little of them 

[springrite]

Again a cliche my friend. They are only in Gouda, and only for the tourists.
Give me a nice Chinese girl anytime, about my height, in traditional outfit, with a little bowl of rice, and a few sticks to...........with, and that would be a fine realistic image me thinks.

I am sure you are kidding when you appear to be picky about height, outfit (which I assume to be optional), food, and other accessories.

[Harry]

Harry, my friend, I don't mean any offense, but I can't resist: the appropriate answer would be this:

We have little of them 

Well yes that's true no doubt.
I know a few though, but no, that's Danielle, and she is from Romania, but has a Dutch pasport now, and she is pretty, and Dutch, well sort of!

[Harry]

I am sure you are kidding when you appear to be picky about height, outfit (which I assume to be optional), food, and other accessories.

True my friend, there is no deceiving you I see!

[Florestan]

Well yes that's true no doubt.
I know a few though, but no, that's Danielle, and she is from Romania, but has a Dutch pasport now, and she is pretty, and Dutch, well sort of!

I was just kidding naughty. Actually, I've encountered quite enough pretty girls in Netherlands during my stay there. I assume they were native Dutch because they were tall and blonde and spoke Dutch perfectly.

[Harry]

I was just kidding naughty. Actually, I've encountered quite enough pretty girls in Netherlands during my stay there. I assume they were native Dutch because they were tall and blonde and spoke Dutch perfectly.

Tall and blonde you say, oke I will look around

[springrite]

Tall and blonde you say, oke I will look around

Tall and blonde? Don't just look around. Occasionally, do look up as well. 

[Harry]

Tall and blonde? Don't just look around. Occasionally, do look up as well. 

Don't have to, I make them look up to me!

[Robert]

THREE

[Solitary Wanderer]

1-3 hours a day for me.

Depending on what I'm doing in my studio I'll listen to 0-4 hours music during the day. Mainly non-classical, lighter selections that are part background.

In the evening I listen all most exclusively to classical music, usually learning whatever pieces are coming up at the next NZSO concert.

[m_gigena]

Approximately four hours a day. I spend lots of hours studying, with music as background. The music only stops if the contents turn into something really hard, requesting absolute concentration.

Well not, if you love purchase music as I do.

[Greta]

About 3, give or take. If I'm at my computer or studying, I always have music on, about 90% of the time classical.  In the car, classical isn't great to listen to because of road noise obscuring the soft dynamics.

When I'm doing technical or brain-twisting work, I often go for minimalist/atonal pieces. I am sure this is a strange quirk of mine. But oddly, it seems to keep my mind alert and in the zone, whereas music with big themes demands my whole attention and I'll get so caught up in it I forget what I'm doing. Mahler especially, I really have to drop everything to listen to, and find him much more rewarding that way.

[Steve]

If we are to include listening whilst engaging in other activities, (i.e studying), then I'm in the 4-5 range. As for dedicated listening, somewhere in the 1-3 range fits me.

[Haffner]

At least 5 and sometimes 12 hours a day.

[Harry]

At least 5 and sometimes 12 hours a day.

That's my man, almost as obsessive as I!

[Haffner]

That's my man, almost as obsessive as I!

When something give me so much, on a daily basis, I see absolutely no reason to skimp on it. Music gives and gives...