Subject: Re: Reality check From: "Ferguson, Sarah Hargus" <safergus(at)KU.EDU> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 14:37:00 -0600Okay, I'll bite (or scratch?) - My French horn teacher in high school had several large dogs. One of them, a St. Bernard, liked to sit with his head under her chair as she played. He would lie there blissfully as she played scales or etudes - but as soon as she started working on arpeggios he would start to whine. If she didn't stop, he'd heave a big sigh, haul himself out from under the chair, lope to the studio door, and start scratching to get out. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Sarah Hargus Ferguson, Ph.D., CCC-A Assistant Professor Department of Speech-Language-Hearing: Sciences and Disorders University of Kansas Dole Center 1000 Sunnyside Ave., Room 3001 Lawrence, KS 66045 office: (785)864-1116 Speech Acoustics and Perception Lab: (785)864-0610 http://www.lsi.ku.edu/ipcd/FAC/Bios/FergusonBio.html > -----Original Message----- > From: AUDITORY Research in Auditory Perception > [mailto:AUDITORY(at)LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Pierre Divenyi > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 2:11 PM > To: AUDITORY(at)LISTS.MCGILL.CA > Subject: Re: Reality check > > Music appreciation by r/cats? > > OK -- my hat in the ring. When he was of an age between kitten and > adolescent, one of my cats (Boulez, a Maine coon of 17 lbs) used to take > naps between the strings and the lid of my piano (which did impede my > playing) and got used to sit on the piano when I was playing. However, he > failed to tell me 'til this day which composer he liked most, so I am > still > uncertain as to whether it was the sounds or the vibration that drove him > to spending time around the piano. I guess I never really took his > behavior > seriously enough to run a single-cat experiment and I am ashamed to admit > that I have never lost sleep over it. > > Pierre