When I was still in music college over 30 years ago, I was tuning a grand piano in a room that had a glass wall overlooking a lake. There was a Siamese cat waiting to get in at the door and I just silently prayed that his owner would delay letting him in until I finished tuning, as these cats can be quite whiney. I had only about 2 octaves of the unisons to do on the temperament strip when she saw the cat and let him in. I decided to tune the unisons down in descending order to perhaps better concentrate. The cat meowed and matched my E4 perfectly, then D#4, and so on! I invited the lady of the house to listen. When I got below middle "C" it was hilarious to watch the cat try to meow below his capable range, making the same mannerisms that a guy might if he couldn't quite reach a bass note. After that I played random notes all over that 2 octave range and the cat matched each one. Too bad we didn't have cell phones with video capability back then to capture the moment! Jim Sasso Atlantic Player Piano, Foxboro, MA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110112/b422eba9/attachment.htm>
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