<p>I’ve noticed that our dog loves it when someone plays the piano, he always hangs out by the piano when my D practices. But he especially loves to sing along when she sings, the higher the better. Right now I’m enjoying a concert with soprano and dog. It’s hilarious. Usually, it needs to be high B at least, and sometimes the dog is right on pitch. I’m sure going to miss this when D goes back to school in a week.</p>
<p>I don’t have dogs, but our neighbor’s dog and another of their extended family member’s dogs when that one visits both like to sit in our front yard, right in front of the the big window by my piano when I practice, so yeah they do too.</p>
<p>My daughter is a cellist and we have a collie named Oliver. He likes to ‘woo’ with D if the work is both fast and polished. A slow, sentimental work does not get the dog going. His favorites are the Bach prelude to the first suite and Squires Tarantella.</p>
<p>Go figure . . .</p>
<p>Our PW Corgi lies down outside of the music room when my son practices violin. He also seems to relax when we have music on the audio system. Just wonder all the things he can hear that I can’t.</p>
<p>Our dog is a shetland sheepdog – when my D plays the sax he seeks her out, sits down next to her, lifts his nose to the sky and howls. We all really enjoy it! Higher notes are better and slower better than faster pieces.</p>
<p>Over the years we have tested cello, flute, clarinet, violin – the only instruments that don’t get a response are piano and guitar. H’mm, I just realized we haven’t tried any brass! We’ll have to get the neighbor to come over to play something.</p>
<p>The joys of a musical family – even the pets are involved!</p>
<p>Our cocker spaniel never misses a practice session. Also, son’s high school bass teacher’s dog would come and sit between the two basses and “sing” (okay- howl) along with them.</p>
<p>Our two beagles love to listen to the jazz station when we’re not around, keeps them very calm. They’ll listen quietly when DS2 plays the piano and trombone but when he practices with his rock band they howl along 
They don’t like the steel pan at all - not sure why.</p>
<p>After listening to hours of video editting as I prepped prescreening cds/dvds, our dog figured out singing is fun and promptly starting accompanying DD as she warmed up. He can change keys too. It made practicing more challenging as we were too busy laughing. Now he is banished to another room with the door closed, me, and a treat but that doesn’t quench his desire to sing. If she starts singing, he looks to me for permission to sing too. If I say “No”, he hums (whimpers under his breath). If he is allowed to sing, he is positively joyful. I suspect he is part beagle.</p>
<p>Our schitzu-bijon (altered spelling to avoid the **** cross loved to sing along with high notes from the soprano in our house and occasionally with the violin. She never sang with the piano, but seemed to enjoy sitting close by when it was played.</p>
<p>This thread may solve a mystery we recently had. A few months ago while attending a concert at the local famous concert hall with brilliant acoustics, DH heard some heavy panting. We turned around and saw that some lady had snuck in her dog to the concert hall.(It was not a service animal). It was clearly becoming very anxious and she left about 10 minutes into the concert. We could not figure out why in the world someone would bring their dog but according to all of you, the dog probably loved music at home! I think it was just the funky harmonics that were driving it crazy.</p>
<p>Our Scottie howls when D sings but can match pitch better than some third year theory students! The one that will sit next to her when she’s singing is our Shetland Sheepdog- but he’s profoundly deaf!
The cats, all 3 of them, leave the room, rapidly…</p>
<p>When we had two Springer Spaniels, the younger one would only sing when my daughter played classical pieces on the piano. As soon as my daughter started warming up, our dog would run to the landing on the stairs and wait. As soon as the classical piece started, she would run next to my D at the piano, and when the mood struck, she would start to do a soft howl with her nostrils flared and chin pointed up. It was so cute, even if it did interrupt practice time. The funny thing is that my D is actually going to school with voice as her formal instrument, and the dog would never howl when she was practicing with singing only, or singing while playing piano. We think the dog felt like the piano was to accompany the dog. :)</p>
<p>Our dogs don’t sing, but they do love to listen to ds practice the piano and are usually in the room with him when he does - especially the standard poodle.</p>
<p>I play classical guitar and when I was growing up I practiced in my bedroom with the door closed. When I would start to practice one of our dogs (also a poodle - miniature) would come scratch at the door to be let in. As long as I played classical music she was on the bed listening. If, however, I started to just bang around and played what I call “hum-strum” guitar, she would promptly go to the door and scratch to be let out. She had very discerning taste in her music!</p>
<p>This is a very funny thread!</p>
<p>When I was a child, we had a crazy Irish Setter who loved the piano. When I would play, he would run in, lie underneath it, and howl along with certain pieces. He especially liked the chromatic scale and would howl up and down along with it. He would howl in a soft and loud voice depending on the piece, and if he was howling very loudly and I stopped playing, and it took him a moment to realize it, he would get embarrassed and put his head down. He was a riot.</p>
<p>The dog our kids had did not sing, but loved to be in the room when they played. Our cat, on the other hand, complains when they start, and then runs out.</p>
<p>Our Cockapoo loves piano music, especially Mozart. Whenever I play, he always comes and sits on the chair nearest the piano or the ottoman and will stop whatever it is he’s doing to do so a lot of the time. However, when my brother plays his cello we don’t usually get the same response, and he’s definitely good enough that his playing isn’t the issue. Even when I’m just screwing around or trying to improvise, Rocket still loves the piano! Thus, I’m pretty sure my dog has a taste for piano music.</p>
<p>I can confirm that our dog is not fond of Strauss viola excerpts.</p>