Laquiante, an officer of the Strasbourg criminal court, designed a beheading machine and employed Tobias Schmidt, a German engineer and harpsichord maker, to construct a prototype.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine

How much are musicians responsible for enlivening or the death of people or their minds with their musics by rising up or destroying the emotions?

 

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In old blues tradition, onstage jam-battle for musical supremacy between guitarists was known as "headcutting" or "cuttin' heads."

 

This guy?