Even though I enjoy the silence when soaping, I put my MP3 player on speaker when I'm unmolding/cutting/beveling and crank it up as long as no one is in the house, or no one minds.
Like Stacy, my tastes in music roam all over the map, so my MP3 player is loaded with a little bit of everything, from classical, to rock, to '40's thru '80's oldies, to jazz, to big-band, to big-hair band, to alternative, to reggae, to country, and even a little bit of the rap/hip hop style (only in very small doses as a small snippet in the middle of a song and if the lyrics aren't degrading or violent, though- since I do like the majority of my music to have a melody and agreeable words to sing along to).
One of my most favorite styles of music to listen to is classical with a modern rock twist, ala violinist David Garrett, or opera with a modern rock twist ala Sarah Brightman.
My hubby is in a big-band/jazz band (trumpet) in his spare time, and so on the weekends the whole household gets to listen to him practice for an hour or 2. I myself like to tickle the ol' ivories purely for my own enjoyment (read-not anywhere in the realm of ever being good enough to quit my day job or give up my soapmaking hobby, lol), but I do it on my new-fangled Roland with the headphones plugged in so that I don't run everybody out of the house. lol
IrishLass