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Evil Dr. K
 Post subject: Kirchner's Cat Piano
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Athanasius Kircher first described the cat piano in his landmark 1650 work Musurgia Universalis.

In order to raise the spirits of an Italian prince burdened by the cares of his position, a musician created for him a cat piano. The musician selected cats whose natural voices were at different pitches and arranged them in cages side by side, so that when a key on the piano was depressed, a mechanism drove a sharp spike into the appropriate cat’s tail. The result was a melody of meows that became more vigorous as the cats became more desperate. Who could not help but laugh at such music? Thus was the prince raised from his melancholy.

http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/?p=116

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Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:
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Nothing like an evil combo of two of your favorite things in the whole world. :(
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pollysix Wrote:
Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:
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Nothing like an evil combo of two of your favorite things in the whole world. :(


no shit.

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'Tis a fate worthy of a cat.
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I'd pay to see one of these

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Sen.TheEPwasBetterLooGAR Wrote:
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Who could not help but laugh at such an idea? Thus was dumpjack raised from his melancholy.

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Of course, the major flaw in this design is that there is no reservoir for the overflow of cat piss.

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Of course, the major flaw in this design is that there is only room for 7 cats.
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Didn't Monty Python have something about smashing cats with hammers?

I also remember cat juggling on one of Steve Martin's albums and in The Jerk.

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