Time to call the tuner....
Annie Grieshop
(641) 691-TUNE (-8863)
2125 290th St.
Melbourne IA 50162
or email me
Providing tuning, regulation, voicing, and repair services
to all
makes and models of pianos
in central Iowa.
To locate a Registered Piano Technician in this or any other area,
please visit the
Piano Technicians Guild
website.
I am an Associate member of the PTG.
The "cat piano", above, was described by Athanasius Kircher
in Musurgia Universalis, published in 1650.
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/nov2002.html
http://www.library.rdg.ac.uk/colls/special/featureditem/kircher/index.html
This engraving is certainly from a later period.
(Thanks to my cousin Waw for solving the mystery of its source!)
