Music in the barn can be nice. But not when its so loud it can be danced to 10 stalls away. It was country. Good thing I wasnt trying to go over a MFS or study a test …or just relax…I should have gotten out my BT speaker and cranked the Grateful Dead channel.
Just thought I’d vent a little bit.
I’m with you on this. Stall cleaners at my old barn cranked the music so loud it was painful to MY ears - can’t imagine how the horses felt. 
Nothing wrong with going down there and politely asking them to turn it down some.
10 stalls so approx 120 feet? Yeaaahhh… Unless it was the BO themselves, I would have asked it to be turned down. What you are describing is bad show barn etiquette.
And it was country shudder
Oh god, been there. Im petty, i know… but i loudly whistle a totally different tune. Or if I’m feeling extra sassy, sing.
@TheJenners, I guess you must not have known this, but when you’re gone Odie likes to listen to Hank Williams Sr (especially, ‘There’s A Tear In My Beer’) and Dwight Yoakum.
Nooooo not Odie!! The betrayal!
Yeah sorry. Also, Billy Ray Cyrus, Achy Bray-key Heart
Hank Sr. transcends genre.
Similar: a competitor stabled next to me left her iPad and speakers on LOUD playing Heavy Metal (Screamo?) while she was competing some distance away. When she returned, I asked her to turn it off. For the rest of the three day competition she complained to anyone/everyone that “old people” didn’t appreciate good music. True, I am old, but it was the volume more than the music choice …
I would have turned the volume down when she was elsewhere.
Rude begets rude 
ETA:
From the state of my barn when I’ve had Equine Break-Ins, I’m pretty sure they had the radio playing Heavy Metal 
I concur. There is really only one Hank Williams.
Odie sings a slightly different lyric, his goes:
There’s a tear
On my Ear
'Cause I’m braying for you, dear
Yoooou are on my Donkey mind
I’ve noticed the ear shattering music seems to be played by Parelli-ites. I watched this one who was a member of that cult that every time he worked with a horse, the music was at jet engine decibel levels. I have no clue why he thought that was a good idea but his messiah did the same thing, so he must follow.
A barn I boarded at had country playing (barf) on the radio and the station played the same 10 songs over and over and over. I would go find the radio and turn on classic rock only to find it changed back the next time I was there.
Ew. My ex listened to country and I generally listen to rap, we both hate the other. We could compromise on classic rock tho. But he always had an excuse to pop in a Chris Ledoux, which I couldn’t stand. I mean I could handle some of that rocky peppy country music in small doses but Chris Ledoux? I wanted to stab pencils into my ears. This came up repeatedly in pre-marital and marriage counseling, I mean it was that awful (both the sound to me and his behavior about it). So ew.
It was a group of folks, and the main competitor was a para rider, and it was one of the assistants with it so loud… and he spoke spanish. Fortunately I didnt spend much time in the barn.
Time to learn enough Spanish to say “Quieter, por favor”
Sounds like they were celebrating their team member.
Still not reason to inflict their music choice on the whole barn.
When I boarded at a barn with Mexican help, we learned enough to tell the guy if we were going to a weekend show, he didn’t have to put hay in our stalls.
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