Comments on: Cat Piano. http://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/cat-piano/ The Neat Side of the Web Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:38:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: daniel rico http://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/cat-piano/#comment-540370 daniel rico Wed, 07 May 2008 00:56:28 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/cat-piano/#comment-540370 Actualmente una secta ATANASOFICA intenta reflotar el instrumento en la ciudad de mar del plata . Argentina. Actualmente una secta ATANASOFICA intenta reflotar el instrumento en la ciudad de mar del plata . Argentina.

]]> By: Ron http://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/cat-piano/#comment-1513 Ron Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:31:52 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/cat-piano/#comment-1513 You can tuna cat piano, but you can't tuna fish. You can tuna cat piano, but you can’t tuna fish.

]]> By: Allen K. http://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/cat-piano/#comment-1512 Allen K. Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:03:52 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/cat-piano/#comment-1512 The Muppets' <a href="http://muppet.wikicities.com/wiki/Marvin_Suggs" rel="nofollow">Marvin Suggs</a> had a similar "Muppaphone", much like Monty Python's Arthur Ewing's "Mousaphone". In Michael Moorcock's Elric series, there is mentioned a chorus of eunuchs each trained to perfectly sing one note. I don't believe they needed to cued by poking or pounding. The Muppets’ Marvin Suggs had a similar “Muppaphone”, much like Monty Python’s Arthur Ewing’s “Mousaphone”.

In Michael Moorcock’s Elric series, there is mentioned a chorus of eunuchs each trained to perfectly sing one note. I don’t believe they needed to cued by poking or pounding.

]]> By: And So It Begins... http://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/cat-piano/#comment-1505 And So It Begins... Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:03:40 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/cat-piano/#comment-1505 <strong>Musical Cats</strong> Squishy Musical Squeaker would be proud. I found this on Neatorama today (via Boing Boing): "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 Musical Cats

Squishy Musical Squeaker would be proud. I found this on Neatorama today (via Boing Boing): “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

]]> By: Nicholas Dollak http://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/cat-piano/#comment-1495 Nicholas Dollak Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:26:20 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2006/02/28/cat-piano/#comment-1495 Undoubtedly the inspiration for the "organ" that the Sultan plays in Terry Gilliam's film "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen." In an early sequence, the Sultan is "entertaining" the Baron with a performance of a little opera he's composed called "The Torturer's Apprentice." The instrument he plays looks like a complicated organ and contains a cage full of wretched prisoners. As the Sultan presses the keys and pulls the stops, spikes poke into various prisoners to make them yelp with pain. As someone who has been clawed trying to shoo a cat downstairs against its will, I can take comfort in the fact that this non-ASPCA-approved instrument probably never actually was successfully used. Would your cat allow itself to be crammed into its little cage? Or stay in it once the poking began? Also, there are only 7 cats there, but 31 keys. Undoubtedly the inspiration for the “organ” that the Sultan plays in Terry Gilliam’s film “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.” In an early sequence, the Sultan is “entertaining” the Baron with a performance of a little opera he’s composed called “The Torturer’s Apprentice.” The instrument he plays looks like a complicated organ and contains a cage full of wretched prisoners. As the Sultan presses the keys and pulls the stops, spikes poke into various prisoners to make them yelp with pain.

As someone who has been clawed trying to shoo a cat downstairs against its will, I can take comfort in the fact that this non-ASPCA-approved instrument probably never actually was successfully used. Would your cat allow itself to be crammed into its little cage? Or stay in it once the poking began? Also, there are only 7 cats there, but 31 keys.

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