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July 29, 2015

Cat Pianos, Sound-Houses, and Other Imaginary Musical Instruments

Similarly hovering between the speculative and empirical is the curious device known as the cat piano.

The earliest known image of a set of cats arrayed as sound-producing elements to be activated by the fingers dates to the late sixteenth century, that is, over a hundred years before the invention of the piano, at a time when it would more properly be called a cat harpsichord or clavichord. | The Public Domain Review

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