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Author: BassClarinetGirl
Date: 2005-07-28 17:52
When I practice my clarinet, my cat always comes in the room and starts crying and making "eh-eh-eh" noises. I shoo her out, but she usually comes back, and being in an open room, i can't just shut the door to keep her out. She gets pretty mad at me, and sometimes trys to "attack" my ankles. Does the sound really hurt her ears? It seems like she does the same things, no matter if I am playing Eb clarinet or bass. Does anyone else have animals that act stangely when they practice?
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2005-07-28 18:29
My old dog (died last year) couldn't stand the clarinet. At first, she would wait a couple minutes into my practice before leaving the room. Eventually, though, this would happen: I'd walk toward the case, her ears and eyebrows perk up. I pick up the case, she looks over. I open the case, she stands up. I take the clarinet out, she leaves the room. If the door is closed, she claws at it desperately.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2005-07-28 20:14
"My" coton de tulare comes to my feet when I'm playing and curls up to listen. When she tires of the position, she'll moosey off to her bed and continue her critical review of my playing.
Maybe I should be a snake charmer, because my entries do not endear me to the local violists.
Bob Phillips
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Author: GoatTnder
Date: 2005-07-28 20:48
I have a very smart, but very inquisitive German Shepard puppy. He's 7 months old (about), and weighs 75-80 pounds. When I star playing, he comes to inspect, and gets closer and closer, until his nose is pressing on the clarinet, moving it about, and I can't play anymore because the instrument shakes too much...
My other German Shepard is about 11, and she knows the drill. She usually just leaves the room.
-Andy Cabrera
a.l.cabrera@gmail.com
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Author: ClariBone
Date: 2005-07-28 22:15
My cat FREAKS OUT when I practice clarinet or bassoon. She will attack me when I play clarinet, and will hide under the bed when I get out the bassoon; she also whines and growls from under the bed when I play bassoon :( She doesn't seem to mind the trombone though, interesting...
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Author: BobD
Date: 2005-07-28 22:40
Animals can hear sounds we can't. Give the cat a break.
Bob Draznik
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Author: ned
Date: 2005-07-29 03:25
I have heard some cats who were cool trombone players!
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Author: rc_clarinetlady
Date: 2005-07-29 04:26
Gracie, the cat, lays on the bed and pays no attention to me.
Pepper, the cat, is another story. She see's the clarinet, eyes dialate, muscles tense, waits while I assemble the clarinet.... until.....one sound and she's outta here!!! When I'm done she comes out from the closet and licks my face! Whew....that's done for the day!
The dog is 13 and deaf by now. He just stares.
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Author: bflatclarinetist
Date: 2005-07-29 14:08
My cat usually just stares and eventually leaves the room, my old dog I thought was going to attack me!
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Author: Mike Clarinet
Date: 2005-07-29 14:29
I used to play the oboe - very badly. The dog we had at the time used to complain very vociferously. Then I switched to clarinet. The family all said "very nice". The dog still complained.
My favourite story concerns a trumpeter school friend of mine who had a dog that used to come and join in with the trumpet. If my friend was practicing, the dog would come into the room in the manner of an absent-minded professor, jump onto a chair and sing along. This was fine for family, but my friend's mother was a music teacher and used to hold instrument exams at her house. The dog had to be taken for a walk if there was a trumpet exam booked. The problem was, one day, little Johnny was doing his first ever trumpet exam and the examiner was running behind time. My friend brought the dog back from a walk before the exam had ended and as the dog walked past the window of the exam room, decided to join in...
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Author: clarinets1
Date: 2005-07-29 16:27
all three of my parrots try to join in when i practice. i have gotten pretty good at tuning them out and putting in a good practice session. my cat runs away to hide, usually in the closet.
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Author: Kel
Date: 2005-07-30 00:03
My pug always curls up near when I practice. Her only dislike seems to be altissimo on clarinet or soprano sax, which elicits howls. When first introduced to the bari sax she barked at it, but now accepts bari as a valid member of the family. I do believe tenor sax is her favorite instrument.
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Author: Aussiegirl
Date: 2005-07-30 00:12
Our cat is used to the clarinet, as ive been playing since before we got her...bari sax gets some strange reactions tho! My brothers trumpet used to send her running but now i think shes used to it (that and he has improved dramatically in that time!)
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2005-07-30 00:17
I'm making my stupid pet human type this. Well, of course I object to the screech-stick. It's an instrument of torture. Any bright, sensitive cat would object. You poor foolish humans apparently have no idea of the foul language the screech-stick spews. Why, anybody who translated that putridity into English would get kicked off this list! Somebody once bleated a basset screecher at me and it was just as bad. They're all going to grow up to be v*c**m cl**ners.
Ssssssss!
Shadow Cat
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2005-07-30 03:00
My teacher as a teenager was Paul Schaller of the Detroit Symphony, and lessons were at his home.
He had a large Irish Setter, named "Ralph".
Every week, when I came for my lesson, the first thing Mr. Schaller said was "Ralph, get out of the room."
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2005-07-30 11:42
>> Every week, when I came for my lesson, the first thing Mr. Schaller said was "Ralph, get out of the room."
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LOL! My brother's runt cocker spaniel used to lie under the piano and howl along with the practice session. For some reason, she never came upstairs, where I practiced clarinet, but my brother, who practiced his clarinet on the ground floor, regularly played with dog obligato. He didn't seem to mind it. Sometimes we'd both take our clarinets out in the back yard and invite her to join us in a trio.
I didn't get the impression that clarinet music hurt her ears or distressed her, because she followed us eagerly, wagged her tail and wiggled and sometimes yipped at us to get started. Then when we did start, she'd get all serious, sit down on her haunches facing us, point her nose skyward, and let forth long, soulful howls. She waited for us to start and then set her pitch to form a dissonant interval. If we changed our notes, she'd change hers to maintain the dissonance. I think she thought we were having a community howl and therefore she should release the inner wolf (a strange concept coming from a runt spaniel, but who am I to judge....). She seemed quite proud of herself.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
Post Edited (2005-07-30 11:44)
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Author: Clarinetgirl06
Date: 2005-08-01 02:05
My dog, Mollie, will quietly howl when I play in the altissimo, sing high notes, or play high notes on the piano. Just about a month ago I introduced her to my clarinet (I never let her near it before) just to see what she'd do. She sniffed it, licked the bell, and did a pose of suprise when I made notes come out. She got even closer to it when I started to play and then she backed away and got bored and left the room and made her rounds and came back later. She doesn't like staying in 1 place or room for too long.
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Author: Garret
Date: 2005-08-01 04:15
My cat leaves the room when I start practicing--slowly and quietly slinks out of the room. He goes to the farthest corner of a closet he can find on the other side of my condo. If he bothers me too much, all I have to do is click the latch on my clarinet case and he'll leave. When he hears no playing for a couple of minutes, he comes back out. It must be the sounds we can't hear. It doesn't bother him to hear recordings I've made when I play them on the stereo.
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Author: Cindy
Date: 2005-08-01 16:18
I have only two rats (love them dearly, can't get a dog or cat because family members have allergies!) But, their cage used to be in my office, also known as my music room. Our band was playing Blue Shades, and I has the solo at the end but was having trouble smearing from the altissimo F#-G. So...I got to practice it over and over and over. I put my clarinet down to note something in my music when I heard an odd whimpering sound. I looked over...and realized my poor rats were huddled in a ball in the bottom of their cage crying!
Moral of the story is...the rats stay in a different room now.
So many instruments to play........so little time to play them!
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