Cat Piano

Started by Dunno, Feb 28 06 09:47

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Dunno

[h3]         Cat piano        [/h3]        [blockquote][img]http://www.boingboing.net/images/_images_cat-piano.jpg" alt=" Images Cat-Piano" align="left" border="1" height="200" hspace="4" vspace="4" width="368"][br clear="all"][/blockquote]Amazing inventor [a href="http://chronicle.com/free/2002/05/2002052804n.htm"]Athanasius Kircher[/a]designed this cat piano in in the 17th century. Kitties with differently-pitched voices were placed in the pens and then "triggered" to meow with a sharp poke in the ass. From Kircher's Musurgia Universalis (1650):

    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.

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Lise

That's mean to cat lovers.
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Bill Cosby.

kitten

Those poor cats.  What an ugly thing to do!
Thousands of years ago cats were worshipped.  They have not forgotten.

TehBorken

Just when I think I've seen everything, I realize that I haven't.
The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music.

Schadenfreude

Lise wrote:
That's mean to cat lovers. [/DIV]
[FONT color=#bf005f]It's meaner to the cats.[/FONT]
"I used to rock and roll all night and party every day, then it was every other day.  Now I'm lucky if I can find half an hour a week in which to get funky."

PostMonkee @(^_^)@

This is just...terrible.
Jesus, bad waves of paranoia, madness, fear and loathing - intolerable vibrations in this place. Get out. The weasels were closing in. I could smell the ugly brutes. Flee.

Sportsdude

And the PETA movement was born.  
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

PostMonkee @(^_^)@

I have lost just a smidgin of respect for Terry Gilliam.

I thought he invented the idea   =(
Jesus, bad waves of paranoia, madness, fear and loathing - intolerable vibrations in this place. Get out. The weasels were closing in. I could smell the ugly brutes. Flee.