<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 5/11/01 10:00:33 AM Central Daylight Time, Tvak@AOL.COM
<BR> writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Anyone ever run across this phenomenon of an animal seemingly having the
<BR>ability to recognize pitch? </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BR>There is one customer of mine who has the biggest, fattest old basset hound
<BR>you've ever seen. Whenever you play any notes in the 4th octave it howls
<BR>like bloody murder. Once you get out of that octave, it is quiet. The last
<BR>time I was there, I asked if they could take the dog out for a walk while I
<BR>tuned (it needed some exercise anyway).
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<BR>Instead of taking the dog for a walk, they just let it out. It came back
<BR>about a half hour later with a loaf of bread in its mouth which it had
<BR>started to eat. I do my midrange unisons last and sure enough, it heard
<BR>those from outside and proceeded to howl between mouthfuls of the bread that
<BR>it surely didn't need for its own good.
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<BR>Also, one of my best Steinway customers has a dog that howls to unisons being
<BR>tuned in the 6th octave. I wouldn't call its pitch "perfect", though.
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<BR>Bill Bremmer RPT
<BR>Madison, Wisconsin</FONT></HTML>