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The Cat and Fiddle Clock Hobart Tasmania

Modern electronics and an old English melody brought this nursery rhyme to life. This focal piece of the cat and fiddle arcade was constructed by Greg Weeding (a talented young ambitious local) It has bought pleasure to onlookers since 1962.

The melody played by a glockenspiel and vibraphone, was recorded in Melbourne and the musicians had to keep playing it again and again, until they took thirty seconds exactly – the time taken by the animated rhyme, with its cat, fiddle, dog, dish, spoon and cow to run its cycle. The clock strikes the hour and – hey, diddle, diddle – the children stand entranced as the cow jumps over the moon. It happens every day at the Cat & Fiddle Square on the hour from 8 am to 11 pm 7 days a week. In sequence the cat plays his fiddle, the cow jumps over the moon, the little dog laughs and there is a cheeky cameo by the dish and spoon.



Alexandra Duval (talk) 17:27, 11 September 2018 (UTC)