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Watch an elephant, playing piano in Thailand’s sanctuary

An elephant, named Peter, from a sanctuary in Thailand, played piano when he got a chance to perform a duet with the pianist Paul Barton. Elephant uses his trunk to push the buttons of piano.

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In a talk, Mr Barton, 52, said, he was plying piano with elephants since 1996 in Thailand but this chance was very different as he played on unprepared tune with elephant. He added that Peter’s reaction in a sanctuary in the mountains near Kanchanaburi, north-east of Bangkok, was completely spontaneous.

Watch an elephant, playing piano in Thailand’s sanctuary

Paul also said that while they were playing piano, another elephants who was peter’s younger neighbor, named Soi, danced to the rhythm.

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