The Cat Organ

The cat organ is a hypothetical instrument consisting of a piano with cats lined up with their tales under the keys which were attached to nails. When a key is pressed, the nail would go into a cat's tail and then the cat would sound. The cats were arrange accordingly in the scale of an octave. First considered in the 18th century, it was later thought, during the early 1900's it had its use as a psychiatric treatment for people who had lost their attention spans. Once hearing "[...]A fugue played on this instrument--when the ill person is so placed that he cannot miss the expression on their faces and the play of these animals--must bring Lot's wife herself from her fixed state into conscious awareness"

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