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TIL that the katzenklavier ("cat piano") is a hypothetical musical instrument made out of cats. Designed by 17th-century scholar, Athanasius Kircher, it consists of a row of caged cats with different voice pitches. It is to be "played" by driving a nail into the cat's tail to make it yowl

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