Thsnks for all the posters..incidentally, i am pleased that the comments have to do with “halacha’ and custom matters…not some inane other subject…
feif un-I only drink cholov yisroel because i live in a place where it is easy to get cholov yisroel. If I would be living in montana (for ex) i would rely on R”moshe’s hetter. However, the matter of cholov yisroel is discussed very thoroughly in halacha amongst the early “baalei halacha”. The matter of RECORDED music is not.
Actually, even the fact of not having LIVE music is an ADDITION to the minhagim of sefirah. If you look in the shulchan aruch, all you find is a prohibiton to marry and cut one’s hair (it is not even clear if cutting one’s beard- i.e. shaving, is included). Everything else is an addition. Some would say that the prohibiton of live music is applicable all year round, hence there is no need to make a special issue on sefira.We have, by and large, ignored that prohibition (of live music all year round)but the late poskim have included this in sefira days.
My point is that it is a “klal” that you rule like the “meikel” in aveilus (check with your rabbi)and so, it seems that the early rulings on any matter of aveilus espoused the lenient view. I don’t see why we should no use the same approach in sefira days.
You will note (see some of the posters) that various yeshivos (and poskim,I may add) are lenient as far as shaving on certain days in the sefira- no doubt this is because of the same reasoning- you do not increase the aveilus aspect.
And, incidentally, who said that R’Moshe did not alllow any music in sefira? i have it, on good authority, that he did allow recorded music of chazanut for radio stations.