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10 Oddest Imaginary Musical Instruments From the Past You Have No Idea Existed

Cat pianos or steam band, the strangest of all musical instruments, fictophones are those that actually don’t really exist.
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10 Oddest Imaginary Musical Instruments From the Past You Have No Idea Existed
Ingrid Longauerová
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The strangest of all musical instruments, fictophones are those that actually don’t really exist. Or, they exist, but only in the world of the imagination. 

People in the past searched for the limits of the impossible, as well as the most fascinating, and came up with curious objects that never got realized.

 

1. Cat Piano

The illustration of the cat piano from La Nature, 1883. (<a href="http://imaginaryinstruments.org/the-cat-piano-katzenklavier-piano-de-chats/">Public Domain</a>)
The illustration of the cat piano from La Nature, 1883. Public Domain
Ingrid Longauerová
Ingrid Longauerová
journalist/graphic designer
Ingrid Longauerová is a long time employee at the Epoch Media Group. She started working with The Epoch Times as a freelance journalist in 2007 before coming to New York and work in the Web Production department. She is currently a senior graphic designer for the Elite Magazine, a premier luxury lifestyle magazine for affluent Chinese in America produced by the EMG.
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