DY: I believe the Beis Yosef says that to calm nerves is okay. Check him out in 560. In general, I think the assumption is that we are Meikil during Sefirah on those cases in which the earlier Poskim were Meikel all year round (I think the Shearim Metzuyanim Behalachah on the Kitzur mentions this but I don’t remember for sure). Also, I think the Nitei Gavriel quotes sources that there is a difference between recorded and live music, but I do agree that it is quite a minority opinion. (Then again, he also brings down the even more minority opinion that slow music, which would not inspire dancing, is Muttar Lechatchilah and he brings that down as the normative P’sak. Then again, he’s a Chassidish Posek. Maybe that is normative custom in Chassidic circles and I just don’t know about it; I should probably ask someone about that.)
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