Manufacturer’s note on the sublime: “The objective world is only the original, if unconscious, poetry of the mind.” – F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854), on Naturphilosophie 

Manufacturer’s note on curing the dreamer, Reil’s Rhapsodieen uberdie Anwendung der psychischen Curmethodeauf Geisteszerriittung (trans: Rhapsodies on the Use of Psychological Therapies for the Mentally Disturbed), 1803: The brain is a synthetic product of art and that is where the dreamer is sleeping. A broken whole resting, recovering. The dreamer whispers across the myelin and the nerves respond in kind. They cradle him, they breathe into his unhearing ears, they know what he's seeing and don't want to wake him. You cannot shake him awake; you must provide him with something better to see, to hear. In 1803, two hands fall hard onto white keys and music — the most singular music that can be imagined — is heard. The dreamer's eyes split wide, and a young man wakes up. 

Manufacturer’s note on the manufacturer, the last: How funny, then! Funny, and strange: that same thing that wakes a young man up can so quickly set him back to dreaming, sometimes. 

Manufacturer’s note on technique: The astute reader may have noticed that in Weckerlin’s citation above, the Katzenklavier was played by a bear. This is not meant to imply that the Katzenklavier is indeed an instrument designed for bears, but, it being the one historical citation, we cannot preclude this possibility. Oh well.