In 1650, the Jesuit priest Athanasius Kircher Germany first described in his book 'Musurgia universalis, sive ars magna et dissoni Consoni' (Universal Production Music, or the great work of consonant and dissonant) piano called cats (katzenklavier, in German), a kind of musical instrument dying with the animal welfare today would have taken the lead hands, putting the fuss.
The instrument was also described in the seventeenth century by composer and expert writer on musical subjects Weckerlin Jean-Baptiste in his book 'Musiciana, extraits d'ouvrages rare ou bizarre' (Musiciana, descriptions of rare or unusual inventions.) According to this good man, when the King of Spain, Philip II of Austria was in Brussels in 1549, visiting his father, Emperor Charles V of Germany (Carlos I of Spain), both were amazed by a street procession totally unique. What struck them most was a float that carried the most extraordinary music imaginable. A bear playing an organ instead of tubes, mounted sixteen small cats, his body locked up, whose tails, tied, appeared to be played as the strings of a piano. Pressing a key on the keyboard, the corresponding queue suffered a tremendous stretch, producing a howl unfortunate, but very well toned.
This type of piano was also reviewed by the German physician and psychoanalyst Johann Christian Reil in the sixteenth century. This individual suggested the use of cat piano to treat patients who had lost the ability to focus their attention, that is, suffering from what is known as attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity, or ADHD. Reil believed that if these patients are forced to see and hear this instrument, it would inevitably capture their attention and be cured. All a medical treatise of the infamous and vile liked both doctors of the time.
not really know who was the creator of so miserable invention, nor is it certain that at some point in history to build a piano of this nature. What is striking is the contempt for animal life and suffering that was taken at a certain moment in history by those who called themselves rational. Athanasius Kircher, in his letter mentioned above, says that in order to raise the spirits of an Italian prince burdened by the concerns of his office, a court musician created for him a cat piano, assuming that His Majesty heal him of his grief, for "what not help but to laugh, and music?" he said. It is said that in this way was as the prince left his melancholy. Clearly, eight cats tortured until exhaustion help lift the spirits of anyone (anyone who is a son of a bitch as the birthplace and lineage).
The study of professional animation The People's Republic Of Animation launched in 2009 his film 'The cat piano', a short film that tells the story of a city of cats whose singers are abducted by a human being to make a piano cats. The play received several awards and a preselection nominations for the Oscar for best animation, which later failed.
Remember, every time you read this post, God kills a kitten. Neither the very Domo-kun is so fucking with michos impoverishment. You know.
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