A riotous musical concert is the subject of a full-page miniature in the album of Andreas Matt, dared entries 1597-1606. The principal instrument, however, is a piano from which five animal heads — belonging to four cats and a dog — project, which screech when the particular key to which they are attached is struck!

The Silesian painter has copied a print etched by Hans Kellerthaler and issued in Dresden at some point after 1575 (below)

The terminus ante quem for Kellerthaler’s burlesque is established by the copy in reverse made by the de Brys and appearing in the first edition of their Emblemata Saecularia (Frankfurt 1596; 2nd edition, Oppenheim 1611):

A later, mid-17C adaptation is preserved in Baltimore: