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BluesTele

BluesTele

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I don't know if this has been previously covered...or if it's a little corny but, I just love the sound of pocket billiards !

I imagine there are many others that also feel this way ?

When I'm playing confidently - the sound of the cue tip in contact with the cue, the cue ball hitting the object ball and most of all when the ball enters the pocket after a firm hit...
that crack or however you would descibe it - just simply wonderful !
 
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Couldn't agree more.... Music to my ears. And in general all the sounds in a pool hall.... Tha racking of the balls, the break and the sound of the last ball dropping into the pocket. Things we take for granted or when playing just do not appreciate.

Take in the sounds boys and girls.
 
Takes me back

when my brother was 16 & i was 15 we would be the first ones to enter the small (6 table) pool hall when it opened. I will never forget that first break of the day. It always seemed to sound like a cannon going off.
Every once in a while when i hear a break when every thing is real quiet i feel like i am back there shooting with my brother & i'm 15 again.
THAT WAS ALMOST 35 YEARS AGO.

Good times,

SLIM
 
Agreed..

Remember the scene in The Hustler when Eddie first steps into Ames takes and slides it down the rail hard into the pocket and says "Nice clean pocket drop". That sound is awesome. Diamond tables have that same clean sound - just perfect.
 
I do to, Blues. And other sounds as well.
Like a crisp loud fart on a cool spring morning, followed by: "Holy crap I just shit my pants!"
The echoing crack of a fracturing femur as a two-hundred and fifty pound lineman crushes a one-hundred and ten pound running back whose Father made him go out for high-school football.
The piercing scream of Donald Trump as his hair is being sucked into the air-intake of one of his private jets.
A purring kitten... :)
 
BluesTele said:
I don't know if this has been previously covered...or if it's a little corny but, I just love the sound of pocket billiards !

I imagine there are many others that also feel this way ?

When I'm playing confidently - the sound of the cue tip in contact with the cue, the cue ball hitting the object ball and most of all when the ball enters the pocket after a firm hit...
that crack or however you would descibe it - just simply wonderful !
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Yes i agree,i like the sound it makes when i hit one dead center pocket,when a ball is hit hard and real good(CENTER POCKET) it makes a noise that will carrie across the room!
 
richiebalto said:
Yes i agree,i like the sound it makes when i hit one dead center pocket,when a ball is hit hard and real good(CENTER POCKET) it makes a noise that will carrie across the room!
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leather pocket? There is nothing better than a clean, quality set of billiard balls being struck at 27mph. POW!!!

this is kinda off topic, I find it hypnotic to watch a well struck striped ball rolling end over end in to the pocket.
 
BluesTele said:
I don't know if this has been previously covered...or if it's a little corny but, I just love the sound of pocket billiards !

I imagine there are many others that also feel this way ?

When I'm playing confidently - the sound of the cue tip in contact with the cue, the cue ball hitting the object ball and most of all when the ball enters the pocket after a firm hit...
that crack or however you would descibe it - just simply wonderful !
Click to expand...
This thread is at perfect time,if you watched lennys stream yesterday,you would of heard all of the pool room bliss,balls hitting one another,lathe machine running,balls being racked,all the noises!
 
All sounds except the sound of drop-pockets on Olhausen tables

BluesTele said:
I don't know if this has been previously covered...or if it's a little corny but, I just love the sound of pocket billiards !

I imagine there are many others that also feel this way ?

When I'm playing confidently - the sound of the cue tip in contact with the cue, the cue ball hitting the object ball and most of all when the ball enters the pocket after a firm hit...
that crack or however you would descibe it - just simply wonderful !
Click to expand...

I love all sounds related to pocket billiards (referring to equipment, not people), except for one -- the sound of the drop pockets on Olhausen tables. Whenever I watch the ESPN Challenge of Champions where they're using an Olhausen table, that sound of a pocketed ball hitting the bottom of the cheap plastic bucket and bouncing around rapid-fire in there REALLY grates me. It wreaks of "cheap! cheap! cheap!" And to add insult to injury, methinks they add microphones in the pockets to accentuate the noise. Grrr!!

-Sean
 
BluesTele said:
I don't know if this has been previously covered...or if it's a little corny but, I just love the sound of pocket billiards !

I imagine there are many others that also feel this way ?

When I'm playing confidently - the sound of the cue tip in contact with the cue, the cue ball hitting the object ball and most of all when the ball enters the pocket after a firm hit...
that crack or however you would descibe it - just simply wonderful !
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Sigel in his prime pocketing balls was distinct. No other player that I know of had less object ball rotation as the ball entered the pocket. His had a slapping sound, one that comes from a near center ball hit of whitey at pocket speed, and the skidding obj. ball as it hits the back of the pocket. With allot of tables today, your unable to hear the ball fall at lower speeds. I also like the sound of a quality wooden rack, majic rack just removed this aspect from our game, be kinda like going bowling, but never hearing the pins being shuffled and set in place, don't think I'd like that.
 
I have read that to bring back memories, smell is the top thing, and in my mind, sound is at least second. The whole sound of balls being hit, breaks going off, people moving back and forth, chatting, woofing, great stuff! As others have posted, it brings me back many years to when I first started playing. The smell of baby/talcum powder does the same thing.
 
An older man out here had hearing aids, and it was good- naturedly rumored that he couldn't be sharked because he turned them off when he played. I asked him once if it was true, and he said, "No. I never turn them off- I like to hear the hit."
 
BluesTele said:
I don't know if this has been previously covered...or if it's a little corny but, I just love the sound of pocket billiards !

I imagine there are many others that also feel this way ?

When I'm playing confidently - the sound of the cue tip in contact with the cue, the cue ball hitting the object ball and most of all when the ball enters the pocket after a firm hit...
that crack or however you would descibe it - just simply wonderful !
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It is interesting some players have their own sound when they hit the ball. I remember Mike Carrella, I could be on the other side of the room and could recognize him pocketing balls. They just sounded different when they went in. I do love the sound of a pool room it is one of the unique sounds in all sports. Tennis has this also.
 
BluesTele said:
I don't know if this has been previously covered...or if it's a little corny but, I just love the sound of pocket billiards !

I imagine there are many others that also feel this way ?

When I'm playing confidently - the sound of the cue tip in contact with the cue, the cue ball hitting the object ball and most of all when the ball enters the pocket after a firm hit...
that crack or however you would descibe it - just simply wonderful !
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The "sounds" are what reeled me into the game. Mesmerizing to say the least.

I bet from seeing your username that you know a little bit about my favorite blues artist, Albert Collins, eh???

Maniac
 
To me the best sound by far is when you just slow roll a ball into a leather pocket and it hits that little wood disk at the bottom
 
Maniac said:
The "sounds" are what reeled me into the game. Mesmerizing to say the least.

I bet from seeing your username that you know a little bit about my favorite blues artist, Albert Collins, eh???

Maniac
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I'm a big Collins fan !

I did notice - your also from his home state....:)
 
I like the sound of a slow-rolled shot too.

First the tip, then the ball contact, then the pocket catching the ball.

It cures headaches. :)
 
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