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Bagpipe player plays all day and night (just recently past 2am) on Newark avenue pedestrian walk. All day/night weekends and evenings on weekdays. I saw other reports responded to stating someone was being assigned to address and enforce the noise issue but they're still playing. This is an EXTREMELY loud instrument and we shouldn't be forced to endure such disturbing noise levels on a constant basis outside of street festivals/special events. The bagpipe noise is so loud and jarring people cover their ears on the streets when they pass, people dining on the sidewalks cringe and become visibly upset by the barrage of noise and can't peacefully go about their leisurely business within proximity of these bagpipers, and myself and neighbors have to keep noise levels inside our homes so loud to compensate all weekend just to drown out their playing, which isn't desirable or fair. When the bagpiper stands directly in front of my building I will hear neighbors yelling and complaining before ultimately blasting their own music to cover it. They've personally asked the player to stop before and he refuses and persists in front of the building (though it doesn't really matter which building he is in front of because you can hear it from anywhere on the block). This is degrading the quality of my residential life and mental sanity. It's very horrible.