When Oliver Morris and Hazel Ross play their violins, the normal response from those within earshot is applause. But their renditions of Mozart and Brahms prompted a less welcome reaction from officials at Manchester City Council, the threat of a noise abatement notice and a warning that their £15,000 instruments could be seized, if necessary by force.
(…)Manchester City Council’s anti-social behaviour action team wrote to the couple condemning their rehearsals as “unacceptable” and a “noise nuisance”.
(…)The local authority admitted yesterday that its action may have been over-zealous. Deborah McLaughlin, director of housing, said: “I accept in this case it would appear there were more appropriate ways of resolving the matter.”

from http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3055777.ece

So, apparently playing music is now “anti-social behaviour”. The good news, however, seems to be that if you have anti-social tendencies there’s a fitting job at the “anti-social behaviour action team”.