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Cat Piano
Anyone want to go into business and bring this back? The world needs the cat piano.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The cat piano - a 1650 device designed to torture cats to entertain royalty. Kinda like Siegfried & Roy Chill out, PETA. Athanasius Kircher designed the cat piano and documented it in the Musurgia Universalis in 1650. The piano was designed to raise the spirits of an Italian prince who was too stressed out. The musician would select cats whose voices were at different pitches then arrange them in the pens accordingly. The piano delivered sharp pokes into the tails of the cats. Cruel? Definitely. Funny? My guess - they were laughing their heads off. The cat piano confirms Darnton's discovery that most early modern Europeans found the torture of cats funny. It also illustrates Kircher's fascination with the relationship between the art of music and the natural production of animal sounds. But for us it is an instrument that has mercifully been forgotten.  hxxp://www.impactlab.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7424
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02-22-2006, 12:13 PM
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02-22-2006, 12:15 PM
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Location: Dayton, OH
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It's like the Muppetphone!
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02-22-2006, 12:16 PM
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Location: New Mexico
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"In Christian ethics.... animals are seen as mere things. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coarsing, bull-fights and horse-races and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with their heavy carts of stone. Shame on such a morality that fails to recognise the eternal essence that exists in every living thing and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun."
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02-22-2006, 12:17 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: South Florida
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Someone notify the Guiness professors...
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02-22-2006, 12:50 PM
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02-22-2006, 12:58 PM
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Location: Astoria, NY, USA
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02-22-2006, 01:00 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: New Mexico
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"In the West, where our skin has turned White, we have ceased to recognise our kinship with animals."
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02-22-2006, 01:01 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2001
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Rose are red
Violets are yellow Torturing cats Makes me a happy fellow. - Unknown author
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02-22-2006, 01:02 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: New Mexico
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"Have these gentlemen of the scalpel and crucible no notion at all then that they are first and formost men and chemists only secondly? How can you sleep soundly, knowing you have harmless animals under lock and key, in order to starve them slowly to death? Don't you wake up screaming, in the night?"
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02-22-2006, 01:15 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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hxxp://www.stuffonmycat.com
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02-22-2006, 01:20 PM
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