Keppler - Wagner's Method Exposed

"wagner's method exposed" caricature depicts richard wagner and hypothesizes how his music might be made. Musicans at the top play the "catophone" (a cat, played with a bow), "wire-rake-oloide" (a harp played with a metal rake) and the "tin-panium" (pans and large knives). In the center, wagner conducts enormous instruments that dwarf the musicians who play them. At the bottom, a man squeezes a dog — the "sick-em-jackionette" — and a combination of a xylophone and pigs feeding from a trough constitute the "porko melodeon". Date: Published in Puck Magazine: Back Cover Vol. 1 No. 1, March 14, 1877.