This 1650-made musical is crazy and bet you won’t find any queer than that. To distress an Italian Queen seven different pitched cats were chosen, were put in a piano cage and then triggered to their ass with sharp spikes of the piano. What you get is uninterrupted melodious meow music from the seven cat sisters. From Kircher’s Musurgia Universalis (1650):
In order to raise the spirits of an Italian prince burdened by the cares of his position, a musician created for him a cat piano. The musician selected cats whose natural voices were at different pitches and arranged them in cages side by side, so that when a key on the piano was depressed, a mechanism drove a sharp spike into the appropriate cat’s tail. The result was a melody of meows that became more vigorous as the cats became more desperate. Who could not help but laugh at such music? Thus was the prince raised from his melancholy.
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