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An afternoon in the old bath house
With this old bath house ambience, free to start in your browser, you step under a vaulted stone ceiling on a winter afternoon. Pale light falls through high windows onto a steaming pool, and the warm water moves gently against the stone.
A spout pours a steady stream into the bath, and the splash echoes around the hall. High above, drops of steam gather on the vault and fall, plink by plink, into the water.
Someone tips a wooden bucket into the pool with a heavy splash and gurgle. A ladle of water runs over warm stone. Then hot iron meets a bucket of water and hisses sharply, and you flinch before you laugh. A soft harp and a wooden flute play on, slow and unhurried.
Pick No music under the picture if you want the water alone. Steady water only also takes out the splashes and the hiss, so nothing breaks the calm.
What you hear in the old bath house
- Warm pool lapping: Warm water moves gently in a large stone pool. Small ripples and soft sloshes echo around the bath hall. Plays all the time.
- Stone spout pouring: Water pours steadily from a stone spout into the pool, a soft, endless splashing that echoes under the vault. Plays all the time.
- Drops from the vault: Drops of steam fall from the high ceiling into warm water, with soft, bright plinks and long echoes. Plays all the time.
- Bucket poured into the pool: A wooden bucket of water is poured slowly into the pool with a heavy splash and a gurgle. Plays at random moments, about twice every 10 minutes.
- Ladle of water: A wooden ladle pours water over warm stone, and it trickles back into the pool with a light splash. Plays at random moments, about twice every 10 minutes.
- Hot iron quenched: Red-hot iron is plunged into a bucket of water with a loud, sharp hiss and a bubbling sizzle that dies away. Plays at random moments, about twice every 10 minutes.
- Drops into a still pool: A few clear drops fall into still water with bright, hollow plinks and a soft, glassy ring. Plays at random moments, about twice every 10 minutes.
- Harp and flute: Slow, calm music with a soft harp, a warm wooden flute, and gentle strings, with long pauses and no drums. Plays all the time.
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