It was an AGE of REASON, you fool! There was NOTHING that could not be explained, measured or quantified...before having radium and electricity applied to it.
Rot and nonsense. This contraption was clearly conceived for the express purpose of rousting the dreaded Zanzibar Spotted Eagle from it's lair, at which time the beast could be soundly blasted, with a shot from a brass-and-crystal Tesla derringer, or some such device.
Now that is totally neat. I can't imagine what kind of thoughts the advanced past-human must have thought as they sat and designed it. The mathematics of bird song, the machinery of aesthetic pleasantry, the will to copy nature through the precision hands of humankind.
Oh well, back to Honey Boo Boo and the fall of civilization.
It won't beat Gilgamesh Wulfenbach's spork gun but I'm sure Krosp I, Emperor of All Cats would find it entertaining. Although he's like trying to get rid of Mechanicsburg's rats or something. Speaking of which I'll bet you could modify it to play the same tune as the Pied Piper and...