Sentence examples for cat piano from inspiring English sources
The Cat Piano: Originated in Brussels in 1549, designed to be played by a bear.
How do you make a smash like Keyboard Cat? "You start with $850 of cat piano lessons," Schmidt once quipped.
But then did Descartes ever build a vomiting machine or a clock powered by a sunflower seed, let alone design a "cat piano" played by pricking the tails of seven cats with differently pitched cries?
He was, by turns, a mathematician; an Egyptologist; an astronomer; a geologist; a volcanologist; a Sinologist; a musicologist; a machinist; and the inventor of a speaking trumpet, the Aeolian harp and some say the notorious "cat piano," which produced notes by pricking the tails of live cats.
Links to funny online videos, pictures and the like pepper our in-boxes like so many temptations of the devil: "Cat Plays Piano!" "If Celebrities Were Fat!" or "MySpace: The Movie!" Sometimes ignored but often indulged, such viral (person-to-person) content — "Check out this bear asleep on a hammock!" — offers a four-minute vacation from work spreadsheets or school term papers.
"It's been viewed 10,000 times," he said, "which is not as much as a cat playing piano, but I'm happy people are seeing it".
So an appearance by Grumpy Cat or a rights deal for Keyboard Cat — a piano-playing feline — also managed by Mr. Lashes, are still up in the air.
After 11 years of using his studio apartment as an office and being the perfect neighbor, the guy next door has moved in full time — along with his wife, 9-year-old daughter, nanny, two cats and piano.
By way of example, he described a six-month period in 2009 spent editing together YouTube clips of cats playing piano keys, until together they produced Arnold Schoenberg's Opus 11, from 1909.
