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"...It is a Dog's nature to love. It is their right. I have encountered dog's through much of my life's work. In general, they want only to love others. Please believe me when I tell you that the average pit bull is more reasonable than the average house wife..."
Blank verse that is such a lightning bolt, it doesn't need rhyme or meter to get the job done.
The tech (and all other regular visitors) start out on the right foot by giving my five dogs their favorite treat. They never forget this, ever. And yes, the smells are interesting and always new, since the tech goes to different places all the time. Besides that, my tech is a very dear and lovable guy, and the dogs know this and behave back the same way.
My tech probably thinks I hang out and keep up light conversation just because I like him (and I do), but it is also to keep an eye on the dogs and to see that they don't snake something expensive out of his bag while his attention is occupied. They are always looking for a new chew-toy. His electronic tuner had a close call.
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The dog love my shoes.
Once I go to tune an upright. The dogs are annoying so locked outside the door. After the session, when I open the door, my shoes were disappeared. The dogs ate my shoes.
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J.S.Bach Prelude in C Min: No. 2 from Six Preludes fur Anfanger auf dem Am Abend No. 2 from Stimmungsbilder, Op. 88 60s Swing No. 1 from Swinging Rhythms
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The dog love my shoes.
Once I go to tune an upright. The dogs are annoying so locked outside the door. After the session, when I open the door, my shoes were disappeared. The dogs ate my shoes. On a guess I'd say those folks didn't feed their dogs very well. I hope it wasn't cold for your shoeless walk home.
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"...I'd say those folks didn't feed their dogs very well..."
My dogs always behave like they're starving, starting less than one minute after a full dinner. I think they would eat until they exploded, if they weren't prevented; the genes hardwired into the brain of animals who lived before dogfood and PetSmart were invented. It is a very near thing to keep them from getting really fat (I have seen specimens of this breed who did bloat up) and then sick with diabetes.
So, opinions will vary, depending on whether you ask the dog, the vet, or the owner. Anyway, mine, at least, haven't fattened themselves on the piano tech, though there are musicians whom I wouldn't put it past.
But fear not. Or not much.
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Don't do it! Pianists are very fattening for dogs.
Marty in Minnesota
It's much easier to bash a Steinway than it is to play one.
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For the first few years, I thought dogs really liked me, until I realized they're just keeping a close eye on the stranger in the house.
The one exception is a huge bull dog who tries to push me off the bench with his forehead. Turns out he doesn't like anyone, but one of the daughters in the house, to play the piano. Maybe I should practice before I go on that service call?
"Imagine it in all its primatic colorings, its counterpart in our souls - our souls that are great pianos whose strings, of honey and of steel, the divisions of the rainbow set twanging, loosing on the air great novels of adventure!" - William Carlos Williams
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I'll add one more dog story...
An old customer called to have her piano tuned, and asked that I get the key from her at her restaurant and let myself in. 'No problem.' says I. She told me, as I got the key, that she had a new dog, but not to worry; 'He's just a sweetheart.'. 'No problem.' says I. And proceeded to the home. As she had always had ankle-biters, little Yorkies and such, I was not worried about the new dog.
I got to the house, knocked on the door as always (..even when the house is supposed to be empty, I knock), and let myself in the door. But....I stopped dead in my tracks, and my heart started racing when the new pet raised his basketball-sized head over the back of the couch. The lady had chosen a MASTIFF as her new friend. GEEEEEZ LOUISE! But, as advertised, the new pet was friendly...thank goodness. Thing must have weighed 150lbs, but was quite happy to see another human to scratch his ears and thump his ribs. We got along splendidly after the momentary heart-attack.
I know the owner appreciated her little joke on the tuner!
Shaken, not stirred, I remain, Which is why I prefer big dogs, if I have to pick. Big dogs tend to be (not saying they always are!) easy going and would rather make friends with you than bite your head off.
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One of the workers in my rebuilding shop would sometimes bring his dog -- some english setter type of creature and not very well disciplined. Well, anyway, we were assembling a recently refinished grand piano and couldn't find one of the cheek blocks. Turned out the dog had decided it would make a good chew toy. I made the dog owner refinish the cheek block.
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A customer excused herself to go pick up kids at school saying that she would be right back. 'Happens frequently with young families, so I didn't think anything of it and kept struggling with a "Haddit and How" type upright. In the course of fighting with some uncooperative treble unisons, three things happened in perfectly timed succession. I got the feeling I wasn't alone. I turned to see a very large English Sheep dog nearly at my elbow, and the dog voiced a friendly greeting at an amazing volume. 'Nearly jumped out of my skin!
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A number of years ago I shared my home with Sam. She was a big, lovable, lab whose favorite spot was under my piano. She had an interesting routine when the tuner arrived. She would go under the piano and sit, rather than lay down, and stare at the legs of the tuner. This would go on through the entire "Tuner Toccata" and she would occasionally lift her paw and make a little vocalization. She was very sensitive to perfect unisons. At the end of the tuning, when the tuner would play a bit, she would plop down to her usual relaxed, doggie blob.
After the tuner left, she would nudge me back to the piano to get me to play. She preferred Brahms to Boogie Woogie.
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I think you people would appreciate this story. Although I have tons of great dog stories. This one is a horse story.
I was working in this house. It was on the Pine Ridge reservation. I was in a bedroom working. I could feel someone staring at me. I turned around. And low in behold...a horse had his entire head stuck inside the bedroom through the window. He was watching me work. Right then...the woman of the house walked by in the hallway, stopped, laughed, and said: Oh don't mind him. He's nosy. He belongs to the people across the road. He likes our grass better than theirs.
Ron Your brain is a sponge. Keep it wet. Mary Gae George The focus of your personal practice is discipline. Not numbers. Scott Sonnon
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