Ah-hah, so Felix's foster son is still alive. I should have suspected it, given Klio's devious brain. Tell us more, Mighty Klio, we sit at your feet listening with eager shell-like ears... well okay how about dumb, cauliflower ears? DRW.
I was surprised to learn one day that the Romans had an early form of hydraulic organ, which they would play at certain events. It seems to have been a rare and complicated instrument. It is known that it was powerful enough to fill the coliseum with sound when it was played there. I have not found out if they used a keyboard or if they played it at intermissions between races and gladiatorial combats, like we used to do at hockey games when we still had live music there instead of canned stuff, and like they used to do in movie houses in the silent film era, before the "talkies". The movie house organs would stress dramatic passages and plot turns.
All of this to say, that as the plot thickens I can imagine the drama mounting and I can hear that primitive (but loud) Roman organ playing even louder.
I'll have to find an excuse to use an organ in the comic somewhere :) There are all sorts of bits of weird Roman technology I'd like to include--calculators, steam engines, printing presses... and the organ of course. They didn't necessarily use these things the way we would, but they did manage to come up with a lot of interesting contraptions.
And then there's the story of the man who invented unbreakable glass and brought it to the Emperor Nero (I believe it was Nero), who immediately had him killed so as not to put the glass manufacturers out of business....
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Date: 2007-08-19 10:32 pm (UTC)you mean, like, sex?
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Date: 2007-08-19 11:32 pm (UTC)surprisingly complex Roman musical instruments for a good reason
Date: 2007-08-19 11:09 pm (UTC)All of this to say, that as the plot thickens I can imagine the drama mounting and I can hear that primitive (but loud) Roman organ playing even louder.
Re: surprisingly complex Roman musical instruments for a good reason
Date: 2007-08-20 04:40 am (UTC)And then there's the story of the man who invented unbreakable glass and brought it to the Emperor Nero (I believe it was Nero), who immediately had him killed so as not to put the glass manufacturers out of business....
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