Singing along

Andy Del · Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 11:30 pm Post subject: Singing along

I am out to do a rename. From Trixie to Dame Joan.

My 2.5 year old Catahoula has decided she loves to sing along with my playing. All the time.

She matches pitch quite nicely.
Her sense of ensemble is impressive, as she is as loud as a trumpet.
Her diction is a little vowelly for my liking, almost French mumbling. No spitting any consonants at all. Sigh.

Eb trumpet is her favourite.

What do I do?

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Seymor B Fudd · Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2020 12:54 am Post subject: Re: Singing along

beagle · Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2020 3:38 am Post subject: Re: Singing along

Craig Swartz · Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2020 3:53 am Post subject:

Sing along with her, she'll really love that. Used to sit with a GSP I had and howl together, really thought it was a pack thing, I guess. Once I'd howl, she'd really bear down and add emotion as well.

If she's as good as you say, you might take her along with you to some stret corner in Sydney and do some busking. Let's see, now- trumpet player, cute little dog? Chick magnet money maker.

WxJeff · Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2020 12:09 pm Post subject:

Yes, we've had this conversation a couple times, but it's always interesting and fun to chat about:

https://www.trumpetherald.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=148656&highlight=dog+howling

Sadly, my dog that is in the 2018 video in the thread above has lost a lot of his hearing and doesn't sing any longer. He does sniff the horn and the case as I'm getting things set up for a practice session as if to say, "You're not going to do THAT again, are you?"

seilogramp · Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2020 1:07 pm Post subject:

cgaiii · Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2020 5:52 pm Post subject:

When I was a kid, I had a dalmatian. He would come into my room when I was practicing scales, stick his nose right in the bell and howl the scale with me. He could get about five notes pretty accurately.
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pinstriper · Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2020 6:31 pm Post subject:

We had a dog that would sing, but only to the Star Spangled Banner. We discovered it one July 4th when my bitter half was singing, but she did it again when there was a basketball game on. Crazy.
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so what · Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2020 7:19 pm Post subject:

My daughter's dog loves to sing along. It seems like she wants to play a horn, too.
The dog she had before that didn't like trumpet so much.
She bit the bell of my old King Liberty, putting a bunch of teeth marks into it.
We rolled them out, but you can still see them.

Andy Del · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2020 2:53 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the performing suggestions, ha ha - the house already has two dogs, but our old fella just likes to sit about, chase balls and occasionally pass judgement on my playing in the form of a grunt or walk out of the room.

Trixie, our singer, (soon to known as Dame Joan) now comes into the room to let rip! I just wish she was more exacting, like our older, now gone to doggies heaven hound who would sing to Hakan, my C trumpet and just one of my students. The rest of the time? She lay down on the floor under the music stand and released noxious gasses.

Next time, it'll be a goldfish* or budgie.

cheers

Andy

*knowing my luck, it will be a glass eating piranha with a taste for human...
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kehaulani · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 9:01 am Post subject:

Simple solution here. I had a cat and on my first note, she would run out of the room.
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WxJeff · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2020 1:24 pm Post subject:

blbaumgarn · Heavyweight Member Joined: 26 Jul 2017 Posts: 705

We had a terrier mix in days gone by and when I would practice at home, if I forgot to shut the door the sound must have upset Ginger enough where she would start to kind of whine and sing along. The funny thing is she would keep it up and sound like a martial arts expert on "Kung Foo Theatre" I don't suppose that says good things about my playing, but she was so cute doing that.
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Trumpetingbynurture · Heavyweight Member Joined: 18 Nov 2015 Posts: 898

My own dog has been getting more and more talky since we got him. He was virtually silent for the first 3-4 months, but more and more he play growls and whines and roos and barks to communicate. Sometimes he sings along a little bit, but I think he's just doing it because he wants to play.

It still amazes me he can sleep on the floor beside me while playing. And I know he's asleep because sometimes he starts doing the full running while dreaming thing where his feet start twitching etc which I've only ever seen him do while asleep.