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Strange Musical Instruments

The Cat Piano

Athanasius Kircher, a 17th-century German Jesuit scholar, documented some fantastical devices including the Katzenklavier („cat piano“). It has a normal keyboard in front of a line of cages, each of which has a cat trapped inside. When a key is pressed, a nail is driven into the tail of one unfortunate feline, which naturally screeches. It was designed to shock psychiatric patients into changing their behaviour, rather than be something Monteverdi could be played on. Fortunately, it was probably never built.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/21/10-strangest-musical-instruments

Umgesetzt schließlich von Monty Python (danke Michael)