NP - Cat Piano

[Ghetta Life]

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

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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