Re: Musical languistics - Mass Reply

yscreus il "J Y S Czhang":

>     IMHO it seems that cats like music a quite
> bit.
> Ferinstanz, recently, Luc the Black Cat - who
> has adopted me - got rather
> pissed-off at me when I turned off a
> compilation tape of microtonal
> music then relaxed when I turned it back on
> again.
Well, you disrupted the Cat in his attempt to
relax with some nice music. That is a Nono! Bad!
Bad human! As I'm sure you're aware, the Cat will
express his Displeasure!

>     I know of a harpist, an acoustic guitarist
> and a cellist who also are
> adopted by cats and these cats are inordinately
> fond of these musical
> instruments' sounds/timbres (BTW these cats
> were not exactly kittens
> when they choose their humans either).
Mine has been known to hop up on the keyboard. I
tried telling him the Cat's Fugue has already
been composed, but that didn't phase him! He
seems to like the quiet of the clavichord, but at
a little over a stone, he's just to heavy for the
action!!, so I have to shift him to a more
instrument friendly location.

>     On the other hand, a sax/bagpipeplayer and
> an
> accordionist/harmonica-player report their
> cat-companions scramble as
> far from these particular sounds as
> felinely possible (I don't exactly blame 'em
> either).
Hm. Depends on the pipes! Some are smooth and
sweet sounding. I suspect the piper in question
blasts away at the acoustic universe with one of
those HGPs?

Padraic.


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