At 06:47 PM 12/4/97 +0000, Barrie wrote: >Dog I don't mind, cats I put up with, but what get to me the most, is >the parrots and minor birds, they sing the note you are trying to >tune. YES!! And the canaries and parakeets (budgies) as well. I start tuning the treble and they make a racket. I move to the bass -- they stop. I go back to the treble -- they start right in again. I tuned for a voice teacher once who had a cockatiel. The darned thing made a perfect imitation of a one-sided phone conversation with a student (pauses, sympathy and all), and then started to solfege and sing scales and arpeggios. Broke me up. Susan Susan Kline P.O. Box 1651 Philomath, OR 97370 skline@proaxis.com "Cheer up! Things may be getting worse at a slower rate." -- Ashleigh Brilliant
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