<html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> For a few years I tuned and played pianos in our house with our German Shepherd Dog, Pepper  (female).   One Sunday afternoon during a birthday party for an elderly couple, when we got to “…happy birthday dear…..” we heard a rather unearthly moan  like some one singing off (way off) key.  It tuned out to be Pepper.  (under the grand piano of all places) She had a wide variety voices between moans and howls but I never knew it until she heard and responded to humans singing in chorus.     I soon found out she was even more  responsive to a male falseceto (sp) voice.   She was at her best in “… the hills are alive with the sound of Pepper dog singinggggggg….” With singing being a screeching high falsetto.     I wanted to submit it to “Best  Home Videos” because I had never heard a dog sing as much or on cue.  Yet  for her first 3 years she never responded to the sound of a piano or a piano being tuned.  I don’t know what that says about me as a tuner other than I don’t hum or sing when I tune.  The only other thing she howled at was coyotes, but that is another story.   RMoody           "While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism,              we ask of the actor to give realism to romance."             Oscar Wilde (1854-1900); Irish poet and dramatist.       -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of KeyKat88@aol.com Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 2:38 AM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: Homer the singing dog   <div> <div> In a message dated 9/27/2006 7:53:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, mkurta@adelphia.net writes: </div> <blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 3.0pt; margin-left:3.0pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'> Any other singalong stories ?? </blockquote> </div> <div> Greetings, </div> <div>   </div> <div>       YES!.. We once had a German Shepherd named Prince. There were about 10 family members in the room on my sister's birthday. We sang happy birthday and the dog, after observing through most of the song,  chimed in near the ending, first with a sort of howl then the last line with a "rarry rirraay rOOooo rOOOO"!  Prince's voice even slid along into the pitches as he was trying to enunciate the words. Afterwards, the room went quiet.  We all were totally stunned! My brother-in law said he got goose bumps! </div> <div>   </div> <div> Julia Gottshall </div> <div> Reading, PA </div> </div> </body> </html>