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I wish I could play that well while looking so scrumptious!
That's one talented kitty...I just wonder how long (s)he waited between practice sessions!
Aww, wow. Pianocat should join Keyboard Kitten and Pianorat in a little C.O. band someday.
gawd, she's so serious and intent on her show, but all i can concentrate on is her fluffers.
I don't know about this atonal stuff. It's a feline between art and noise.
She's working on moonlight snogata.
(She missed a note, and she going to find the darn thing.)
WOW!! A Star Is Born!!!
Kinda classical, kinda jazzy-jazzical?
gaaaah the cuteness is gonna make me asplode!!!
i love that she's listening to the sound she's making and realizing that she's making it..a testament to feline intelligence, really.
hell, it's just so cute.
Can the kitty be deaf like Beethoven and has to lay her head on the keys to hear it?
My son thought it sounded like Beethoven.
Seriously, I would buy a CD of this stuff.
Then, I'm into that avant-garde stuff.
I. Would. Totally. Buy. It.
I love how kitteh looks at her mama with the camera as if to say, wtf are you looking at?
Nora, you are the bestest piano player I've ever heard! hehe!
i love the tail action!
Madame Souscat-ska.
Sounds like Nora is into Stokhausen or John Cage.
Martha in Washington, I thought it was close to Beethoven too. "Fur Elise," to be exact. no, really :)
What a brilliant kitty! She knows how to play the piano (as far as sitting on the bench and using your paws) and she almost had a tune going there several times. I'm pretty sure she's only a little ways away from managing "Chopsticks".
Thank you for posting this video. I was having such a bad day and needed something "cute" to get my mind of things. This lovely little kitty sure did the trick.
Nora's awaiting inspiration from her mews.
That cat's got aspirations to BE someone, I tell you what.
OMG, my face has fallen off from laughing, smiling and saying "That's so cute!" every 3 seconds!
lurkertype, I agree with you - Nora *does* seem to be getting close to playing "Chopsticks". The rest of almost sounds like actual music, too - something modernistic, not in a standard key. Y'know, if people will buy abstract art painted by elephants and chimps, why shouldn't there also be a market for music composed and purr-formed by cats?
Ohhhh... the paws... the paws!!! I wanna pinch em.
You know what they say, practice makes purrrfect
Is that available on itunes?
Move over Marvin Hamlisch!
Gaah, I hate it when that happens: you know a piece of music, you just don't know what it is. Can anyone help me? What is "Betsy's student" playing in the second half?
AND she's got "sea urchin belly!"
lauowolf : "Nora's awaiting inspiration from her mews" ...
what a brilliant laconic observation ...
Yaaaaaaaay for Nora and lauowolf
Nora reminds me of my Dusty...that is, if my Dusty lost a few pounds and was the size of a normal cat.
Honestly. My little sister can play better than that and she can hardly play.
(Kidding. Joke. Cute kitten!)
the composer Domenico Scarlatti wrote a Cat Fugue based on the motif played by his cat on the keyboard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_fugue
Where are kitty's star- shaped glasses?
i love the head action!
my dearly departed cat Squeak used to do something like that.. but while I was practicing the piano! he would sit on the bench with me, and occasionally lift a tentative paw, and play a note or two. I though that he was unique in that, until I saw this! I wish we'd had a video of us playing together, so I could post it too.
I'm on UR piano
Playin' U a song
Definately too cute for words!
I am amazed and enthralled.
Wow.
I love the fierce fuzzy tail-twitchin' determination!
Nora epitomizes the cute!
I vote to include the Thai Elephant Symphony in the CO band. They paint *and* play music (um, not at the same time).
http://www.mulatta.org/videos/ozforwebPt2Ellies.mov
Wow. For music played by a cat, that's surprisingly...musical!
OMG this was a fantastic start to the day - It's adorable, but hilarious, too - I almost had tears running down my face from laughing so hard. He's so earnest!
Woah, that kitteh has a serious Philllip Glass/Steve Reich minimalist music thing going for him. Go kitteh!
Philip Glass, EAT YOUR HEART OUT!!
The passage around 1:15 was especially prosh.
aaawaaa!so cute! =^.^=
I especially love the look she gives the camera at the end of each passage.
"I am a tortured artist. Please, leave me! I must work!"
Okay, this is maybe the most amazing adorable thing I have seen on CO, thusfar.
And there is a certain Glenn Gould moodiness about Nora's playing...
From the way she's making love to the keys in the opening sequence, I wonder if the piano has a bit of catnip oil rubbed on it...hmmm....
this cat is excessively cute. good looks AND talent, hey how 'bout that!
i like her minimeowlist style. she's clearly non traditional, at times using chin and neck to belt out some very effective chords.
you can see she really loves to play. its her medium, her passion, her raison d'etre. wait til she plays the Met!
Kitten on the keys,
Swing it like you please, babeh!
I love the focus in that little pooty-face!