Oh, I don't know ... I tuned for a voice teacher with a cockatiel once. The crazy bird not only did the one-sided phone conversation thing, complete with sympathetic pauses and little comments, it solfeged arpeggios and scales! I just about split a gut. Susan On 1/12/2011 7:07 PM, Jim Moy wrote: > No way! > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 4:38 PM, James Sasso <jwsasso at gmail.com > <mailto: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/20110112/85168721/attachment.htm>
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