and another definition--for those non aussies...a lagerphone
http://www.davidbruce.net/passions/224.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_stick

this film has been mentioned here recently
http://www.nfb.ca/film/log_drivers_waltz/

i also recall a cartoon depicting building
where an octopus was the brick layer...
trowel of cememt in one arm and bricks in
all 7 others...and other construction done
to the Hungarian Rhapsody (by franz liszt?)

and disney's fantasia with tsykovsky (sp?)
and other music..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasia_(film)