Halloween tip. Easy background music.
9If you want spooky music and have a cat and a piano, randomly hide cat treats on the keys at various times during the day. I started doing this a couple weeks ago and now we have a continuous spooky Halloween background soundtrack as the cats walk across the keys looking for treats at random times of the day and night.
Why, yes, my wife is annoyed with me.
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Now I regret letting my daughter haul off the Casio keyboard.
Some years ago I had a cat who would get on the piano bench and carefully, using his front paws (while standing on the piano bench with his rear legs), push down select keys in a very deliberate way. He’d do this repeatedly looking at the piano with a great deal of concentration ears cocked forward. I think I had a cat pianist who played by ear. I wish now I had recorded what he was doing.
@Kidsandliz Instagram has a lot of videos of cats who really seem to be deliberate in playing the piano. Also some who like to sing along as a human plays!
One of our cats walks across the piano keyboard when she is impatient to be fed. (Her ploy is too often successful, thus providing positive reinforcement. I try to keep the fallboard closed, but it often seems to be left up.)
/giphy cat keyboard
