I've usually offered to meet a dog that is barking when I arrive, and that almost always works to calm and quiet it. Today, I arrived to a howling beagle locked behind the gate upstairs, with the piano downstairs. He kept howling as the owner brought me to the piano and while we (tried to) chat about it. I finally said I should probably meet him. She agreed, he came down, and we became very good friends, me and Buster... he went away after a few minutes and I never heard nor saw another peep out of him through two P/Rs and a tune. Yeah, two P/Rs... 150-200c flat. Janssen spinet. Delightful little PSO. Paul Bruesch Stillwater, MN On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Mike Kurta <mkurta1 at charter.net> wrote: > ** > I've learned to extend a closed fist to a strange dog for the first > time, as fingers are too easy to nip. Howling dogs? I had one that would > howl IN TUNE with the note I was tuning! It would slide up or down to > match the piano, but was eventually right on. The owner put the dog > outside, but it did the same thing. The next thing I see is the dog racing > around the outside of the house with my expensive rubber galoshes in its > mouth. They were in tatters when I left. Safe to say, I never left them > outside again. > Mike Kurta > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20130107/d504d4ac/attachment.htm>
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