I LOVE dogs! That's one of my joys of going into homes to tune. Three memorable experiences: 1. A Belgian teruvan: After tuning, while the owner was playing, I was petting the dog. suddenly the owner said; "If you ignore Suzzette, she might sing for you." Sure enough, Suzzette sang! She not only sang, she performed like a prima donna. She listened to the music and fit right in with it, she sang to her audience, it was incredible! (They perform in the bar in Big Sur, CA). 2. A Cocker spaniel. Kept coming back to me for pets--I couldn't resist. Eventually I said to the owner, "Some day I want to have a dog like this one." The owner said, "How about this one?" Tara went home with me that night and brought me great joy for the next eight years. 3. A King Charles spaniel, slept on my right foot right through a pitch raise and tuning! She merely adjusted her position when I had to move. Someday I want to have a dog again, right now I have to pet other people's dogs. Diane [pianotech] animals interrupting tunings Wally Scherer afinetune at yahoo.com Wed Jan 12 07:52:09 MST 2011 Previous message: [pianotech] Steinway M Next message: [pianotech] animals interrupting tunings Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What kinds of stories do some of you have about animals interrupting tunings? I have one customer with a dog which tried to sing the note I was tuning. Sometimes I ask customers to remove the bird cage from the room as the birds really get going as I do the top octaves. Somebody's comment recently about a Yugo (referring to the Winter piano) led me to a web page about the Elvis parody on the Yugo. That led me to another one with this Einstein Parrot video: http://humor.beecy.net/videos/einstein-parrot/ Have fun. Wally Diane Hofstetter
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