mecha
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 posted on 20-8-2007 at 09:19 PM |
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trumpets and dogs (?)
i wanted to know if happens to anyone that when you practice, if you have dogs, they some times howl?. It started to happen to me when my teacher
started to give me exercises to brighten the sound and makeing it bigger. Is it because their hearing? am i hurting muy dog or someething?. What
should i do?....
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Reiver
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![[*]](./images/oxygen/default_icon.gif) posted on 20-8-2007 at 10:37 PM |
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Mine do it as well! I would be really interested in finding out about this too! At first I thought it might be when I play loud, but they still do it
when i play at pianissimo. It also happens when I play trom.
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richszabo
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Interesting thread. I have a Coon Hound that howls when I play. My father-in-laws Labrador barks and growls when I take the trumpet out of the
case.
Here\'s some interesting facts:
Dogs hear at a wider range of frequencies than humans. The low end of the
range is similar, but dogs hear noises up to 45 kHz, while humans only hear
sounds up to about 23 kHz. This means that they could be hearing and
responding to sounds that we can\'t hear at all. Cats can hear sounds as
high as 64 kHz, bats up to 110 kHz and porpoises up to 150 kHz! Younger
people and animals generally have more acute hearing than older
ones. Deafness is not uncommon in old dogs and some have hereditary deafness.
At the high and low ends of the frequencies that we hear, sounds must be louder, or more intense in decibels, for us to hear them. So, a dog could
hear a siren farther away than we could. Pain results from sounds that are much louder than our threshold of hearing. Dogs could feel pain from
sounds that weren\'t painfully loud to us. Very loud sounds can hurt the
ears and if a sound seems too loud to you, it is probably more so to your dog.
But, when a dog howls at a sound, it isn\'t always because it hurts his ears. He may associate the sound with particular events or have learned that
if he howls, the noise is \"chased\" away (as dogs who chase cars think that they have successfully chased away the intruding vehicle).
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/TimCondon.shtml
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geodesic glycerin
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| posted on 17-8-2009 at 10:05 PM |
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My parents tell me he\'s just singing. I personally think that\'s a silly explaination, but I felt like throwing it out there.
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Star1pup
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| posted on 30-12-2009 at 07:19 PM |
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My playing bothered my Airdale, but now I have a Mountain Cur and nothing seems to bother Scooter. I put off trying to play again because of how it
bothered Star, but Scooter doesn't pay much attention.
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