Reply To: Listening to music during sefirah while exercising

sam2- look at my previous posting where I- albeit reluctantly- acquiesce that public concerts could be included in the showing of aveilus during the sefira. You wil also find that the acharonim prohibit LIVE, public music during engagements. (Methinks the mishne berurah writes the same) My “beef’ is with prohibiting ANY display or listening to music during this period. (This, after all, was the original question of the poster-music during exsrcise).That- I submit- is a vast expansion of ‘aveilus” in an area that was never,ever considered to be part of the minhagim established by the geonim.