That has to be one of the most hilarious things I've read here! Anon On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Raymond Irving <rirvingbas2 at mac.com> wrote: > Hi list, > > A while back I tuned for a friend, who happens to be a veterinary > assistant. She also owns several birds, of the talk and squawk variety. My > wife was along, having pleasant conversation in another room, where the > birds were caged. Using my trusty RCT, tuning was as usual, and in fact > sounding fine, till I moved to the treble and worked my way up. The birds > decided to “help”, by making sure I focused on my aural skills. One in > particular was able to mimic the pitch I was playing exactly, but moved in > half steps all the way to the top! That is, when I tuned a C, the bird > learned that, and continued to sing C when I moved on to C#. C# to D, etc., > ALL the way up.To add to the frustration, the girls were in hysterics in the > other room. Who knew tuning could be so amusing! I was ready to give the > birds a nice bath in olive oil and basil, but didn't. Oh, it's funny NOW... > > Raymond Irving > > P.S. Ron N., thanks for the cat photo. > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090302/d03b33a0/attachment.html>
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