Do your household pets love traditional music....?
Do your household pets love traditional music....?
So you might not have an audience with your kids or significant other out there in the woodshed or the living room, but a pet surely is the ITM man/woman's best friend. They're always a loving audience.....For instance, our late household budgie ("Hermes" RIP) for one loved tunes...and the worse you played the better. In fact, just horrible screechy noises on the fiddle across the strings sent him into paroxysms of joy (it seemed, but who knows).
If you have a pet, do they react to how you play and/or what you play (instrument) differently, indifferently or whatever. Are they your best critic? If you live on a farm do you ever play to the horses, chickens or what not?
My cat also likes the toe tapping aspect....he lies at my feet and has a 4/4 chin rub. He comes over immediately whenever i sit down to play. He's fond of reels.
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Whenever I get out the fiddle, my dogs lay down in a huff, knowing theres no prospect of walks for the next while. My canary looooves tunes though, and rarely sings unless there is music playing or being played. Irritating when trying to record something, but he's fun to watch as it seems like he's really listening to the melody.
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I don't actually have pets because I live out in the woods. I can't really keep domesticated animals. I have professional animals on my property. As in animals who actually have to do it for a living.
but I have been attracting rabbits lately now that the geese have migrated for the summer
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If I play the mandolin, the dog hides under the bed.
If I play the guitar, he lies down at my feet.
If I (or anyone else) plays fiddle or flute, he howls.
I think he thinks he is singing along!
He clearly understand the concept of a session.
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The dog (who does not otherwise appear to be hard of hearing) seems to love listening to me practice the fiddle-she comes in and sprawls contentedly at my feet. The cat is an entirely different story. She'll come stalking into the room, bite at my ankles, attack the dog and generally make a nuisance of herself until I throw her out and close the door. Sigh, training humans is SUCH a full time job!
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If I practice the fiddle, my dogs, two westies, leave the room. Can't blame them. If I play the box, the oldest heaves a sigh and goes to sleep under the table. The other often sleeps on the foot that isn't tapping.
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Forgot to mention. We 'dog-sit' for our eldest daughter and her husband when they travel. They have an older German Shephard. One afternoon, I was playing and from the family room we heard this very uniform moan. Not a howl.
We haven't figured if he was trying to hum along or if he was making an editorial comment on the music!
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my terriers like traditional music. They take turns to sit with me when I practice. They sing along to their favourite box tune "those endearing young charms" but only if if I play a bass accompaniment.
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When my parakeet (who is 15 years old or more) sees me pick up the fiddle he jumps onto his perch and starts bobbing his head up and down. When I play he jumps around the cage flapping his wings and chirping. My dog however, thinks the whole thing is one big bore complete with yawns.
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Damn strayaway, you ain't nuttin' but a hound dawg...
Will, I can get my cat to do that too...if I use the laser pointer or large quantities of cat nip...or both. Actually, the last time she used both I found her passed out in the gutter the next day with no recollection of what she had done the night before. Slept it off for days. Poor kitty.
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See Ramiro, the trick is that cjp there is one my cat's favorite people. She loves him, as soon as he comes to door, she's all over him like a puppy, it's crazy. He's a good egg, I dig him too...unless he's playing his flute and we're having A=440 issues.
No no, I kid, he's got that well straightened out. My hat is off to you fluters, I don't know how you do it.
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I have a dog who hates music, especially accordions and concertinas, also doesn't like piano, he just about tolerates the fiddle,but he prefers to go out of the house if anyone is playing, and his howling is distracting if he stays inside! My cats seem to like music and will sit and listen, often in the fiddle case.
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My one cat, Finn, makes a clicking noise (the same he makes when he watches birds) whenever I play flute. I can't tell if that's good or bad. He also tries to play guitar whenever I set it down.
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I used to have a springer that loved to sing along with derwentwiters farewell when played on the low whistle.....he never even bothered to stir himself if i got any of the other instruments out.
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My cat tries to strum my mando or guitar whenever I play. Perhaps she thinks I need the help! LOL And she does her best to hide my bodhran tippers!! She can't resist any type of drum stick.
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("derwentwiter's farewell" is a classic product of this website's alteration or elimination of Naughty Words. It had me puzzled for a very long time...)
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My cats don't seem to mind. One cat used to sit on my knee while I was playing banjo. It was in her later years, and she was going deaf, so I think she liked it because she could hear something... One of my other cats will sit next to me while I play sometimes. And the other cat will lie down in the middle of a house session, because she thinks it's all about her... (In fact, one of my bands is named after her...)
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Our former cat used to sit in the room with us playing for 30 minutes before getting up and demanding to be let out. Our other cat isn't as tolerant, asking to be let out within about 5 minutes.
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A lot of cats go bonkers over the sound of a whistle or recorder. Others seem to be offended by it. We had a cat years ago who loved classical guitar and clawhammer banjo. The current queen seems to like guitars (and whistles) but when I get out the fiddle, she suddenly remembers an appointment outside, far from the house. She loves singing, especially with lots of harmony. When we sing four-part harmony, she often gets right in the middle of the circle and watches our faces.
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The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
'O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!—Edward Lear
And the Brits wonder why the sun has set on their empire. Too much unicorn, too little lion. Harrumph.
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Mtodd you say that Peadar Ó Riada's fake helicopters don't bother you. DO you think the likes of the real of the real musicians on your list of favourite would appreciate that? They'd be disgusted. Your into the old pure drop alright but you can't tell the wood from the trees or the fake from the great.
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Remind the Brits why irishmen are vary of their trustwortdsleness after they broke the Treaty of Limerick. Many thousands and millions of lives ruined over that glaring cowardice act. Penal laws enforced shortly after to try to kill off the last of thee society that saved humanity and scholarship and religion during the dark ages in europe. Thanks brits. i bet they don't teach that in detail like waterloo. Wasn't it Wellington who won that for them? an irish man and a mighty fine reel recorded in the key of A major by the great james Morrison not of the doors but of Sligo.
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My cat also likes the toe tapping aspect....he lies at my feet and has a 4/4 chin rub. He comes over immediately whenever i sit down to play. He's fond of reels.
Does he he come over immediataley when Peadar's helicopters are landing? Has Peadar any traditional music influences? is so who? if not is he a traditional musician? Who played the helipcopter badly on 78's? Mtodd what would Coleman think? Can you imagine the Gurteen boys in the golden reviewing a arts application for the Sliabh luachra area now? How they'd react to helicopters? joke my son
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My 24 year old cat who (I've known her since she was 2 weeks old) loves trad! She's pretty much deaf these day so she totally accepts my playing for what it is--me sitting in a room where she can be near.
BTW, she's damn spry for her age. She doesn't fight or hunt anymore, but she's still a master at tripping a human and can sing like a banshee in the middle of the night!
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... I have always had a desire to play fiddle for some well balanced relaxed horses doing a musical ride. I can picture it still. Horses cantering around slowly, breathing with gentle regular puffs moving in perfect jig time, like a natural metronome. I tried playing fiddle once (eons ago) down beside some stables and the only reaction I got was one of total mayhem, horses disturbed from their eating to snort over the doors before whirling around their boxes in flight mode ... oh well! Had much more success playing jigs along with showjumping horses showjumping at the Olympics on the tele.
... then there was that unplanned litter of half Siberian Husky puppies. They were rared in a makeshift pen beside the computer desk and were serenaded daily by good quality Trad, such as TG4, through the speakers above them, until they got too big to keep in the house any longer. When they all bar one had gone and the one I kept first encountered me on fiddle, he fled the house back to where the makeshift outside pen had been. I rushed after him to console him and told him it was alright ... and from then on he doesn't mind at all ... its just an excuse to lie down and fall asleep with boredom. The three dogs sleep through it all. They don't care about Trad but are relaxed and glad just to have me there. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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My parents' cat will come into the room with me if I am playing but she is the most needy and clingy cat in the world, so she would hang out with you no matter what you were doing.
I've played the whistle to my horse. She looked at me and then decided she could care less. Years ago I rode a dressage freestyle to a strathspey/reel set from Natalie MacMaster. That was good fun. Reels are better for canter than jigs, and strathspeys or marches are best for the trot.
A flute-playing friend of mine has a dog who is totally not bothered by the flute, but when I started the pipes up, even just the drones, the dog ran for his life!
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I did a "dressage demonstration" several years ago and I think I used slow reels for the trot and that recording on a Planxty album of Liam O'Flynn playing Kid on the Mountain and O'Farrell's Welcome to Limerick for canter. Slow to moderately paced slip jigs work for canter but you have to be super collected.
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My old dogs (chow chows) tolerated music, but left the room when the whistle went into the upper octave. My current dog, a Maltese, however, seems to like the whistle. Probably because it is pitched in the same octave she is. When we got her, I was pleasantly surprised that she is very much like an ordinary dog, just smaller (I had been worried about her being very high maintenance). And just like other dogs, when excited, she sits back, raises her head and howls like a wolf. But a soprano wolf, the sound is pretty funny.
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Hey Silver Spear, I'm really impressed. Would have loved to have been there to see it ... the closest I ever got was organising a musical ride of teenage stable volunteers at RDA for their parents. They worked really hard rehearsing and took a lot of trouble getting themselves and the horses ready. It was a la Torvill and Dean, to Bolero. It didn't go ppperfectly according to plan, but they looked great and they had a lot of fun in the process.
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What is it about some dogs howling when the box is played?
I know it works like a charm for recent college graduate kids. They decide that an independent life away from mom and dad is preferable to 5 AM box practises.
The only problem is that Herself expects me to talk to her now...A new issue with the kids out of the house.
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My two dogs ignore all things musical except for the button accordion which they hate. I would think that they had refined taste except that they don't mind the tenor banjo.
Do your household pets love traditional music....?
Do your household pets love traditional music....?
So you might not have an audience with your kids or significant other out there in the woodshed or the living room, but a pet surely is the ITM man/woman's best friend. They're always a loving audience.....For instance, our late household budgie ("Hermes" RIP) for one loved tunes...and the worse you played the better. In fact, just horrible screechy noises on the fiddle across the strings sent him into paroxysms of joy (it seemed, but who knows).
If you have a pet, do they react to how you play and/or what you play (instrument) differently, indifferently or whatever. Are they your best critic? If you live on a farm do you ever play to the horses, chickens or what not?
My cat also likes the toe tapping aspect....he lies at my feet and has a 4/4 chin rub. He comes over immediately whenever i sit down to play. He's fond of reels.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by mtodd
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My cat hates it when I play fiddle. She leaves the room.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by Marklar
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Whenever I get out the fiddle, my dogs lay down in a huff, knowing theres no prospect of walks for the next while. My canary looooves tunes though, and rarely sings unless there is music playing or being played. Irritating when trying to record something, but he's fun to watch as it seems like he's really listening to the melody.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by Splendid Isolation
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I don't actually have pets because I live out in the woods. I can't really keep domesticated animals. I have professional animals on my property. As in animals who actually have to do it for a living.
but I have been attracting rabbits lately now that the geese have migrated for the summer
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by Nate Ryan
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If I play the mandolin, the dog hides under the bed.
If I play the guitar, he lies down at my feet.
If I (or anyone else) plays fiddle or flute, he howls.
I think he thinks he is singing along!
He clearly understand the concept of a session.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by Rob
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I think the cat likes it. Didn't run away. [shrug]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3qcS9UmQkQ
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by SWFL Fiddler
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The dog (who does not otherwise appear to be hard of hearing) seems to love listening to me practice the fiddle-she comes in and sprawls contentedly at my feet. The cat is an entirely different story. She'll come stalking into the room, bite at my ankles, attack the dog and generally make a nuisance of herself until I throw her out and close the door. Sigh, training humans is SUCH a full time job!
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by aikifiddler
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Our St. Bernard sit and listens when I practice the box. He is probably my most tolerant audience.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by zippydw
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If I practice the fiddle, my dogs, two westies, leave the room. Can't blame them. If I play the box, the oldest heaves a sigh and goes to sleep under the table. The other often sleeps on the foot that isn't tapping.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by boxielady
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Forgot to mention. We 'dog-sit' for our eldest daughter and her husband when they travel. They have an older German Shephard. One afternoon, I was playing and from the family room we heard this very uniform moan. Not a howl.
We haven't figured if he was trying to hum along or if he was making an editorial comment on the music!
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by zippydw
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zipp....maybe was the dog's version of A440? ;)
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by mtodd
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my terriers like traditional music. They take turns to sit with me when I practice. They sing along to their favourite box tune "those endearing young charms" but only if if I play a bass accompaniment.
I've trained them to bite other players.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by millionyears_bc
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my sheepdog howls and barks only when i play the accordion, its the second dog ive had that does so!
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by S.Doherty
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When my parakeet (who is 15 years old or more) sees me pick up the fiddle he jumps onto his perch and starts bobbing his head up and down. When I play he jumps around the cage flapping his wings and chirping. My dog however, thinks the whole thing is one big bore complete with yawns.
Mary
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by Antikhntr
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When I play tunes, my cat actually plays along on air fiddle: http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q191/clownshoes1945/InvisibleViolin.jpg
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by Will CPT
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My next door neighbours pussy goes wild when I get my horn out!
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by strayaway
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Damn strayaway, you ain't nuttin' but a hound dawg...
Will, I can get my cat to do that too...if I use the laser pointer or large quantities of cat nip...or both. Actually, the last time she used both I found her passed out in the gutter the next day with no recollection of what she had done the night before. Slept it off for days. Poor kitty.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by SWFL Fiddler
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do your household pets love traditional music no they dont its just my herd of wild elephants and my 14 wid polar bears like it!!! get a life!!!
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by myparasgon
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Sure, but can your polar bear sit on the table while you play tunes?
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by SWFL Fiddler
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Strayaway,,,,you sure that ain't some old blues lyric?
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by mtodd
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So nobody here plays the whistle? My cat leaves the house if he sees a whistle in my hand. He doesn't mind banjo or bouzouki, though.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by Ramiro
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Sorry SWFL, hadn't seen your clip yet. It seems not all cats hate whistles.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by Ramiro
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See Ramiro, the trick is that cjp there is one my cat's favorite people. She loves him, as soon as he comes to door, she's all over him like a puppy, it's crazy. He's a good egg, I dig him too...unless he's playing his flute and we're having A=440 issues.
No no, I kid, he's got that well straightened out. My hat is off to you fluters, I don't know how you do it.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by SWFL Fiddler
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I have a dog who hates music, especially accordions and concertinas, also doesn't like piano, he just about tolerates the fiddle,but he prefers to go out of the house if anyone is playing, and his howling is distracting if he stays inside! My cats seem to like music and will sit and listen, often in the fiddle case.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by cathycook
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My one cat, Finn, makes a clicking noise (the same he makes when he watches birds) whenever I play flute. I can't tell if that's good or bad. He also tries to play guitar whenever I set it down.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by dr_funkenstein
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I used to have a springer that loved to sing along with derwentwiters farewell when played on the low whistle.....he never even bothered to stir himself if i got any of the other instruments out.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by pencross
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My cat tries to strum my mando or guitar whenever I play. Perhaps she thinks I need the help! LOL
And she does her best to hide my bodhran tippers!! She can't resist any type of drum stick.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by Fishmonger
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("derwentwiter's farewell" is a classic product of this website's alteration or elimination of Naughty Words. It had me puzzled for a very long time...)
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by nicholas
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There is a local musician who used to have a cat which loved to listen to the soprano recorder. Yes, I actually did witness this in person.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by fauxcelt
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My cats don't seem to mind. One cat used to sit on my knee while I was playing banjo. It was in her later years, and she was going deaf, so I think she liked it because she could hear something... One of my other cats will sit next to me while I play sometimes. And the other cat will lie down in the middle of a house session, because she thinks it's all about her... (In fact, one of my bands is named after her...)
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by Reverend
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Our former cat used to sit in the room with us playing for 30 minutes before getting up and demanding to be let out. Our other cat isn't as tolerant, asking to be let out within about 5 minutes.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by Mandogal
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A lot of cats go bonkers over the sound of a whistle or recorder. Others seem to be offended by it. We had a cat years ago who loved classical guitar and clawhammer banjo. The current queen seems to like guitars (and whistles) but when I get out the fiddle, she suddenly remembers an appointment outside, far from the house. She loves singing, especially with lots of harmony. When we sing four-part harmony, she often gets right in the middle of the circle and watches our faces.
# Posted on September 10th 2008 by Bob himself
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The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
'O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!—Edward Lear
And the Brits wonder why the sun has set on their empire. Too much unicorn, too little lion. Harrumph.
# Posted on September 11th 2008 by NEW Pure Drop® Ear Canal Oil
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Mtodd you say that Peadar Ó Riada's fake helicopters don't bother you. DO you think the likes of the real of the real musicians on your list of favourite would appreciate that? They'd be disgusted. Your into the old pure drop alright but you can't tell the wood from the trees or the fake from the great.
# Posted on September 11th 2008 by Lord Gordon
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Remind the Brits why irishmen are vary of their trustwortdsleness after they broke the Treaty of Limerick. Many thousands and millions of lives ruined over that glaring cowardice act. Penal laws enforced shortly after to try to kill off the last of thee society that saved humanity and scholarship and religion during the dark ages in europe. Thanks brits. i bet they don't teach that in detail like waterloo. Wasn't it Wellington who won that for them? an irish man and a mighty fine reel recorded in the key of A major by the great james Morrison not of the doors but of Sligo.
# Posted on September 11th 2008 by Lord Gordon
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Sub vary for wary . polish influence
# Posted on September 11th 2008 by Lord Gordon
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My cat also likes the toe tapping aspect....he lies at my feet and has a 4/4 chin rub. He comes over immediately whenever i sit down to play. He's fond of reels.
Does he he come over immediataley when Peadar's helicopters are landing? Has Peadar any traditional music influences? is so who? if not is he a traditional musician? Who played the helipcopter badly on 78's? Mtodd what would Coleman think? Can you imagine the Gurteen boys in the golden reviewing a arts application for the Sliabh luachra area now? How they'd react to helicopters? joke my son
# Posted on September 11th 2008 by Lord Gordon
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/8425218@N07/509278133/
# Posted on September 11th 2008 by lazyhound
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My cats don't seem to mind me playing tunes. They have a thing for instrument cases tho... and i have to remind myself to close them when practicing.
# Posted on September 11th 2008 by davydd
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My 24 year old cat who (I've known her since she was 2 weeks old) loves trad! She's pretty much deaf these day so she totally accepts my playing for what it is--me sitting in a room where she can be near.
BTW, she's damn spry for her age. She doesn't fight or hunt anymore, but she's still a master at tripping a human and can sing like a banshee in the middle of the night!
# Posted on September 11th 2008 by gw
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AARGH!
"...cat (who I've known since..."
# Posted on September 11th 2008 by gw
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... I have always had a desire to play fiddle for some well balanced relaxed horses doing a musical ride. I can picture it still. Horses cantering around slowly, breathing with gentle regular puffs moving in perfect jig time, like a natural metronome. I tried playing fiddle once (eons ago) down beside some stables and the only reaction I got was one of total mayhem, horses disturbed from their eating to snort over the doors before whirling around their boxes in flight mode ... oh well! Had much more success playing jigs along with showjumping horses showjumping at the Olympics on the tele.
... then there was that unplanned litter of half Siberian Husky puppies. They were rared in a makeshift pen beside the computer desk and were serenaded daily by good quality Trad, such as TG4, through the speakers above them, until they got too big to keep in the house any longer. When they all bar one had gone and the one I kept first encountered me on fiddle, he fled the house back to where the makeshift outside pen had been. I rushed after him to console him and told him it was alright ... and from then on he doesn't mind at all ... its just an excuse to lie down and fall asleep with boredom. The three dogs sleep through it all. They don't care about Trad but are relaxed and glad just to have me there. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
# Posted on September 11th 2008 by Clear Drops
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My parents' cat will come into the room with me if I am playing but she is the most needy and clingy cat in the world, so she would hang out with you no matter what you were doing.
I've played the whistle to my horse. She looked at me and then decided she could care less. Years ago I rode a dressage freestyle to a strathspey/reel set from Natalie MacMaster. That was good fun. Reels are better for canter than jigs, and strathspeys or marches are best for the trot.
A flute-playing friend of mine has a dog who is totally not bothered by the flute, but when I started the pipes up, even just the drones, the dog ran for his life!
# Posted on September 11th 2008 by TheSilverSpear
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I did a "dressage demonstration" several years ago and I think I used slow reels for the trot and that recording on a Planxty album of Liam O'Flynn playing Kid on the Mountain and O'Farrell's Welcome to Limerick for canter. Slow to moderately paced slip jigs work for canter but you have to be super collected.
# Posted on September 11th 2008 by TheSilverSpear
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My old dogs (chow chows) tolerated music, but left the room when the whistle went into the upper octave. My current dog, a Maltese, however, seems to like the whistle. Probably because it is pitched in the same octave she is. When we got her, I was pleasantly surprised that she is very much like an ordinary dog, just smaller (I had been worried about her being very high maintenance). And just like other dogs, when excited, she sits back, raises her head and howls like a wolf. But a soprano wolf, the sound is pretty funny.
# Posted on September 11th 2008 by AlBrown
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Hey Silver Spear, I'm really impressed. Would have loved to have been there to see it ... the closest I ever got was organising a musical ride of teenage stable volunteers at RDA for their parents. They worked really hard rehearsing and took a lot of trouble getting themselves and the horses ready. It was a la Torvill and Dean, to Bolero. It didn't go ppperfectly according to plan, but they looked great and they had a lot of fun in the process.
# Posted on September 11th 2008 by Clear Drops
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What is it about some dogs howling when the box is played?
I know it works like a charm for recent college graduate kids. They decide that an independent life away from mom and dad is preferable to 5 AM box practises.
The only problem is that Herself expects me to talk to her now...A new issue with the kids out of the house.
# Posted on September 11th 2008 by zippydw
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My two dogs ignore all things musical except for the button accordion which they hate. I would think that they had refined taste except that they don't mind the tenor banjo.
John
# Posted on September 11th 2008 by John Conoboy
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My cockatiels love my fiddlin'-------occasionally, one or both may perch on my shoulder(s) when I'm playing. As for homo sapiens--------?????
# Posted on September 14th 2008 by hauke