Kate Nyx's relationship with her street cat, Winslow, was rough at first. But now, Winslow has found a unique way to communicate with his owner: by playing the piano. Cats are perennially popular on ...

Chill out, PETA. The cat piano was the work of a German scholar over 350 years ago. Athanasius Kircher designed the cat piano and documented it in the Musurgia Universalis in 1650. The piano was ...

When Philip II, the king of Spain, visited Brussels in 1549, he made a grand entrance, complete with wild animals and flames. Still, by all accounts, the most impressive part of his procession was an ...

In Tales of the Early Internet, Mashable explores online life through 2007 — back before social media and the smartphone changed everything. Charlie Schmidt is lucky, and he knows it. What else could ...

Let's be clear about one thing: the cat piano—a "musical" instrument played by forcing cats to meow—is not real. But people have been talking about it for over 400 years. Athanasius Kircher, a Jesuit ...

Fans of Keyboard Cat are mourning the feline YouTube sensation in the wake of his March 8 death. After 9-year-old Bento’s owner, Charlie Schmidt, confirmed his passing in a tribute video on Friday, ...

A social-media video that captures a pet cat's piano-playing skills has delighted viewers online. The viral clip, which has been viewed more than 7.8 million times since it was first shared to TikTok ...

You would think developers have something better to do than creating piano apps for the iPad that sound like cats. Well it turns out, no: someone did. In the video embedded below, an adventurous iPad ...