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Timing his strokes to the beat of the music he cut up the meat in such a fashion as to lead you to think that a gladiator was fighting from a chariot to the accompaniment of a water-organ.

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Timing his strokes to the beat of the music he cut up the meat in such a fashion as to lead you to think that a gladiator was fighting from a chariot to the accompaniment of a water-organ.

The Satyricon — Volume 02: Dinner of Trimalchio 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

Trumpets were in use at all triumphal processions, while in the days of the empire the well-known but problematical water-organ became popular.

Woman's Work in Music Arthur Elson

Hero and Vitruvius speak of a water-organ, invented or made by Ctesibius, of

Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

Heron also wrote _Pneumatica_ (where the reader will find such things as siphons, Heron's Fountain, penny-in-the-slot machines, a fire-engine, a water-organ, and many arrangements employing the force of steam),

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

Timing his strokes to the beat of the music he cut up the meat in such a fashion as to lead you to think that a gladiator was fighting from a chariot to the accompaniment of a water-organ.

The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

Never did the notes of the great water-organ of the palace sound so sweet in any ears as these words in those of the Roman ladies.

A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903

Instruments newly invented occupied him, and a new water-organ, of which trials were made on the Palatine.

Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

The roaring of the great water-organ grew louder and louder.

Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864

actually, pink, the sound at the beginning of the floyd song is a guy playing a water-organ called something else. it rotates and water flows over it and you play it by placing your hands on different places. look it up its pretty neat said shazbot on January 5, 2007 3:06 PM.

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