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Author: Malcolm Martland
Date: 2010-12-10 16:12
My young spaniel Truffle is quickly following in her predecessor Fly's footsteps. He would happily howl along with my clarinet playing! Truffle is more adventurous. Yesterday I found her attempting to play my tenor sax. Her embouchure was a little harsh and made quick work of the reed but thankfully only a few marks on the Otto Link mouthpiece. Not daunted by her lack of success she had a ripping time with an original 1961 Stranger on the Shore songsheet ![[mad]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie9.gif) I'm not sure whether this was in appreciation of Acker Bilk or not! Fortunately or not, depending on your opinion, I found another on the unmentionable auction site. Truffle is already looking forward to getting to grips with it!
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2010-12-10 16:18
Years ago I picked up my clarinet only to find one of the cats we had at the time tried to play it when I laid it on the table for a while - but they completely trashed the reed and left several small teethmarks on and inside the mouthpiece.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2010-12-10 16:24
HAHAHA! Didn't resort to burning it last week then?
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
Post Edited (2010-12-10 16:27)
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Author: Malcolm Martland
Date: 2010-12-10 16:34
Now that's a thought! I have considered setting fire to and catapulting a cello across the garden but having a few problems with the range and aerodynamics. Could practice on a few violas first but a couple of discarded old cellos of lamentable provenance are actually occupying space in my loft!
Cheers
Malcolm
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2010-12-10 16:51
My cats hate my playing. My cavies (Guinea pigs) hate my playing. My kids hate my playing. If I had dogs, they would too, I'm sure.
Is there some message here?
Happy holidays, all!
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Author: JJAlbrecht
Date: 2010-12-10 17:00
>>>Is there some message here?
Yes. They have no musical taste.
Jeff
“Everyone discovers their own way of destroying themselves, and some people choose the clarinet.” Kalman Opperman, 1919-2010
"A drummer is a musician's best friend."
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Author: interd0g
Date: 2010-12-10 19:35
All dogs hate the sound of the clarinet. They call it 'stick barking'
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Author: chris moffatt
Date: 2010-12-10 19:44
Summer the little stripey cat hides somewhere under the beds.......Wiley the german pointer looks pained and gets as far away as he can but reserves the actual singing for freight trains that occasionaly pass. Timmy the grey long hair appears to be deaf as he takes no evasive action whatever - but he's 21 this year.
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2010-12-10 20:06
If you allow me a little excursion to bovine musical taste - they seem to prefer traditionals (slow and melodious), are somewhat indifferent re classic music but run away when confronted with Klezmer. (when I finally tried jazz they were out of earshot so I can't tell).
I admit that the sample wasn't all that large and belonged to a culturally rather homogeneous group. I wonder how e.g. British cattle would react, or what the findings are with caprine or ovine life forms.
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Ben
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2010-12-10 20:08
My Coton de Tulear complains about my altissimo during warm ups, but she's ok once I get playing.
Bob Phillips
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Author: Barry Vincent
Date: 2010-12-10 20:54
The reaction that my dog has when I play an instrument is a bit of a mystery to me. She'll howl like mad, but if it's the situation that it is hurting her ears , why doesn't she just move away. She just sits there howling as if she's trying to 'sing' along. It happens not just with the clarinet but with the oboe and flute as well , and not just with the higher notes. It is very amusing to watch the reaction even when she sees me getting an instrument out of it's case.
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Author: JJAlbrecht
Date: 2010-12-10 22:16
>>>I wonder how e.g. British cattle would react, or what the findings are with caprine or ovine life forms.
Isn't that how mad cow disease got its start? ![[rotate]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smiley25.gif)
Jeff
“Everyone discovers their own way of destroying themselves, and some people choose the clarinet.” Kalman Opperman, 1919-2010
"A drummer is a musician's best friend."
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Author: gsurosey
Date: 2010-12-10 23:27
My dog (English Wolfhound/Doberman mix) objects to my eefer playing (she howls; she also howls when the fire siren goes off at the fire house across the street). Perhaps a good thing she is with my dad and not here with me.
Rachel
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Author: Alphie
Date: 2010-12-10 23:53
Our Australian terrier happend to find my B44 basset horn mouthpiece that I kept in a little velvet bag inside my shoulder bag that I had left open on the floor. Not much was left of it when I found it on my bed next to a very satisfied dog. The soft velvet with the hard chewing friendly inside was just too much of a temptation for a little dog.
Alphie
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Author: JJAlbrecht
Date: 2010-12-11 03:02
Our two Jack Russells love listening to my daughter playing her clarinets, including the eefer. They aren't quite so thrilled when I play. {tongue] Of course, she would practice for hours on end. I don't do nearly as much practicing, so it's more of a novelty (and less pleasant) when I play.
Jeff
“Everyone discovers their own way of destroying themselves, and some people choose the clarinet.” Kalman Opperman, 1919-2010
"A drummer is a musician's best friend."
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2010-12-11 19:24
During my adolescence, my brother's sweet-natured but intellectually challenged runt Cocker Spaniel, Silkie, used to sing along with either of us playing the clarinet. She also sang with the piano and the human voice. I think she really was singing, engaging in a family howl-in, not howling in agony, because she got a most soulful look on her face, with her eyes half-closed, and if we held a long tone, she'd pitch her voice a sixth above or below it and hold her tone as long as she could. If we played a long tone on clarinets together, ij harmony, she tried to pitch her voice somewhere in between our notes, preferably at a sixth above or below one of us. If you've seen pictures of wolves howling in harmony with their noses pointed at the moon, you know that blissful look on Silkie's face.
Every cat I've ever known hated my clarinet -- the late, lamented Shadow Cat especially hated it for all of her 21 years and left some rude messages about it here -- until Jane Feline took over the house last spring. Jane not only likes the clarinet, she tries to put her head up the bell while I'm playing it. She wants to know what's in there making the sound, I suspect. She's fascinated with machinery: pounces at the DVD machine and tres to peer inside whenever the disc tray comes out or goes in. Oddest of all: instead of regarding the vacuum cleaner with horror, she follows it around, investigates it while it's running and sometimes hops on and rides it. And all this is not because she's deaf. She's got formidably acute hearing and seems unusually attuned to the world of sound. She not only recognizes the sound of our car, among the many cars on our urban through street, and runs to the front window *before* the car comes into view over a blind hill, but she also recognizes my husband's footsteps and goes leaping onto the front window sill before he comes into view over the hill on foot -- and he's usually wearing running shoes, not noisy clodhoppers.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Author: Klarnetisto
Date: 2010-12-13 02:06
Actually, it seems to me that they like it. Their howling with the clarinet is their way of joining in. Notice that they tend to get excited and wag their tails. Somebody on a TV program about wolves years ago made this same observation.
Our poodle not only howls with my clarinets, but my soprano saxophone, my recorders, my wife's soprano voice, my wife's home pipe organ, my daughter's violin...! It's a miracle any of us get any practicing done!
Klarnetisto
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Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date: 2010-12-13 02:45
My three Jack Russells love my students. When I practice (those rare occasions) they run into my studio, but are disappointed to find that it's only me there. Kids have to learn not to wear sandals in the summertime if they don't like JRTs licking their toes as they navigate Baermann 3! And the Moms who are brave enough to wait in the house have learned not to wear black slacks unless they like the effect of white dog hairs in their laps!
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