No way! On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 4:38 PM, James Sasso <jwsasso at gmail.com> wrote: > 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/20110112/30af0071/attachment.htm>
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