> Beethoven wrote Wellington's victory for a huge version of this (built by > the Metronome inventor, Maelzel,) called the Pan Harmonicon which included > gun fire from the percussions. Sounds a LOT more effective for scaring enemies than a formation of men in skirts squeezing asthmatic bladders with screeching inverted-udder thingies! Can you imagine a platoon of soldiers dragging Gatling-gun-equipped barrel pianos into battle?! :-) Peace, Sarah
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