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We have 11 dogs--so we're probably not playing with a full deck.

The dogs rarely howled until a few months ago. That was when I finanaly learned to relax my breathing, and voila the tone started to become more resonant. Rex, our poodle/schnauzer/whatever mix, who spends his day with me in the room where I practice starts howling--sometimes when I was playing a note as low as Ab below low C. Then by ones, twos, and threes the other dogs wander into the room and start howling. By this time I no longer can hear myself play, nor would I want to because I'm laughing so hard all that newly acquired resonance has gone down the tubes. Rex is going to have to be banned from the room where I practice.