Does your pet hang out around you when playing piano or does the sound scare him

[jzp93]

My son's cats Isn't scared of the sound of piano at all.
Even when he plays Rachmaninoff's etude tableau op33 no7
and play certain parts really loud, they either lay on top of the vibrating piano
or by the pedal.

[ionian_tinnear]

Our dog will lay on my feet, truly enhancing my pedalling.

The cat will sit next to me on the bench which is helpful for my right arm!
If I could just teach the cat to turn pages for me...

[jzp93]

Our dog will lay on my feet, truly enhancing my pedalling.

The cat will sit next to me on the bench which is helpful for my right arm!
If I could just teach the cat to turn pages for me...

lolol @ Ionian_tinnear. That's a cute picture. Our cat
likes to sit next to my son too and it limits his movement.
When he was a kitten he would lay on the very end keys,
I think he liked the feel of the keys.

[piano_dude555]

My kitten likes to lay on my feet when I"m playing.

[bleicher]

The first day my cat arrived, I played him a note on the piano and he ran away. He quickly got used to it, though, and now he often comes and sits on a chair next to the piano and goes to sleep while I'm practising. I call it the piano-listening chair.

[starlady]

You all are lucky that your pets like your playing. My cat hates the piano.  She can stand about 5 minutes of it, then she paces around the room grumbling. Sometimes she even starts to yowl. I don't know why she doesn't just leave the room quietly if it bothers her so much.

--s.

[bleicher]

It sounds as though it's not so much the sound of the piano she doesn't like but the lack of attention she gets while you're playing.

[littletune]

I think all my pets like piano Especially my cat comes into my room a lot of times when I start playing and then sometimes she sleeps on the piano or somewhere near... and my dog sometimes sleeps while I'm practicing but sometimes she starts barking and wants to play... and my birds of course start singing a lot of times when I play (but now lately they haven't been singing so much... I don't know why, maybe cause it's so hot or because I'm playing almost all the time with the quiet pedal or because I'm learning new pieces and they don't know them yet  ). 

[bleicher]

Maybe the birds are singing less because it's summer. They sing more in the spring.

[littletune]

Maybe the birds are singing less because it's summer. They sing more in the spring.

Oh really? I didn't know that! But it makes sense! Yes I guess that must be the reason then! 

[bleicher]

I have to own up and say that I only heard it last week when I went to a talk on birdsong and music. In the spring they're trying to establish their territory and find a mate, and they sing to achieve both these things. Apparently.

[jzp93]

I would love to see pictures of everyone's pets.
They sound so interesting.
I would post some pics but I don't know how.

[sheena]

Well, my dog has taken a fancy to lying close to the piano with her legs pressed against the wall, for some reason. She leaves the room when I practise singing though, which is not very nice of her 

[starlady]

SO I was at my teacher's house for a lesson, the first time I am there, and while I was warming up I felt two little paws on my leg, and next thing, there was a cat sitting in my lap while I played!  What a pleasant change from my own cat, who does everything except throw eggs at me to show how she doesn't like it when I play.  (See post above). It was very sweet. Hard to play that way, though.

--s.

[jollisg]

Nowadays, my cats aren't allowed to go into the room where the piano I practice on stands (one of them pee when he is in that room).
My oldest cat, Mitsy, have never been with me while practicing. My younger cat, Morris (Mitsy's son), was sitting on my knees, on the bench, jumped up on the piano (on the keys) etc..

[nanabush]

My dogs will totally chill out under the piano bench (black lab and yellow lab).  It's hilarious because my black lab named Diesel will give me his paw when I'm playing (probably because he probably wants me to pet him, and thinks I'm ignoring him).  So I'll ask him: "Does Diesel want to hear some Chopin?  Awwww... yes he does" and then I'll start playing.  You'd have to see my dogs' reaction; crack me up every time (and hey, during a 2 hour practice session, you need to find something to break the tension lol)

[rachmaninoff_forever]

sometimes my dog likes to sit on the pedal, or he likes to walk under the piano for a couple minutes then sit on the pedal 

He's taller than the underpart of the piano (sorry I don't know what it's called) so when he walks under, the piano shifts while I'm playing and it distrubs me a tad bit.

[49410enrique]

 i have a few, two of them like to sleep right behind my piano bench, one of them likes to hang out right under the grand, but i think it depends what i'm playing, they don't like 20th century all that much unless it's more tonal than not.

[outin]

One of my cats loves singing/playing and hangs around most of the time. She also tends to jump on the keyboard when i play with headphones, which might make me deaf eventually I guess she feels annoyed that she can't hear the piano.
The others simply couldn't care less.

[costicina]

My cat Felipe, too, hangs around and want to sit on my knees when I'm playing, or tries to play: perhaps he thinks he could do better than me, and probably he's right 

But he has his tastes, too: loves Bach, Schumann, hates Chopin...

[outin]

So my cat has better taste than yours 
I don't play much Chopin (yet) but when I play his music from a record, she often lies down beside the speaker and looks very happy...