#catpiano

[catpiano]

First finished artwork in a long while! I anthropomorphized the (titular) catpiano! I think she turned out really fun for not really planning ahead on design, her color pallette was kind of hard to work into an outfit though.

I'm also realizing i forgot to line her whiskers but. Shrugs.

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Hey frank! Is bisque a soup in your opinion?

Of course it's a soup, what do you think the word "soup" even means, catpiano?

[chrispalmermusic]

Listen to the Solo Piano Pieces of Chris Palmer!

[mattthe1cat]

The goblin emerges from his closet with a half eaten bag of Doritos and a cat piano, ready to wreck havock.

-Me after playing cat piano in my closet for 3 hours

[publicdomainreview]

The Cat Piano.⠀ ⠀ The earliest known image of a set of cats arrayed as sound-producing elements to be activated by the fingers dates to the late sixteenth century, that is, over a hundred years before the invention of the piano, at a time when it would more properly be called a cat harpsichord or clavichord. The image comes from an emblem book, Johann Theodor de Bry’s Emblemata saecularia mira et iucunda uarietate saeculi huius mores ita exprimentia ut sodalitatum symbolis… (1596), and shows a motley ensemble of animals and confused musicians. A subtitle to the scene, “There is no music sweeter to Midas’s ears”, alludes to the Phrygian King whose punishment for preferring Pan’s pipe to Apollo’s lyre was to have his ears turned into those of a donkey.⠀ ⠀ From a comical image of cacophony, the cat piano underwent a series of unexpected functional transformations. By the 1650s it was a legendary music therapy: supposedly, an Italian prince was cured of his melancholy by the device when he found its meowing cats, triggered by driving spikes through their tails, irresistibly funny. The early-nineteenth-century medical theorist Johann Christian Reil offered a different account of the cat piano’s therapeutic powers. In his treatise on psychological cures for the mentally disturbed, Rhapsodieen über die Anwendung der psychischen Curmethode auf Geisteszerrüttungen (1803), he presented the cat piano as a hypothetical fix for dreamers unable to focus attention on the external world. As he vividly explained, the cats would⠀ ⠀ "be arranged in a row with their tails stretched behind them. And a keyboard fitted out with sharpened nails would be set over them. The struck cats would provide the sound. A fugue played on this instrument — when the ill person is so placed that he cannot miss the expressions on their faces and the play of these animals — must bring Lot’s wife herself from her fixed state into conscious awareness."⠀ ⠀ From our essay "Cat Pianos, Sound-Houses, and Other Imaginary Musical Instruments".⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #cat #cats #instrument #catpiano #piano #music https://www.instagram.com/p/B30D0LDJMNv/?igshid=b3v8yaud9kcz

[phoenix-nightfire]

So #what are #you #doing?? #lol #jeffy #supermariologan #superluigilogon #chilly #lol #puppet #funny #hilarious #why? #catpiano #diapertapp! #lol! #whatdoing? (at YouTube Channel)

[powerfultulips]

13 and 20 for the ask game :3c?

hi friend! thank you for the asks!

13: what's something you learned recently?

oh man, tough question. first thing that came to mind was something trauma-related. i feel like spongebob writing that essay trying to think of anything else. idk. i guess i learned that i might be more fucked up and traumatized than i thought? without going into too many details, that's the best i can do

20: what do you wish someone would ask you?

...whether i'm actually doing okay or just trying to put up a façade for the sake of everyone else around me. what i actually want to do with my life. if i need a hug. how my novel's going.

[sweettalkiinwoman]

More than anything else I wish to be a nepo baby