Comments on: Nora the cat plays piano

Nora the cat plays piano

parm=serial — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:43:50 -0800

Nora the cat plays piano Plus there's a sequel!

By: parm=serial

parm=serial — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:45:51 -0800

Sorry if you get hit with an ad from ifilm...

By: Flood

Flood — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:50:47 -0800

hilarious

By: phaedon

phaedon — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:51:08 -0800

sweet, who else gets viral content from cnn? with ads, no less?

By: Popular Ethics

Popular Ethics — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:55:01 -0800

Awwwshmmmuffle... *melts*

By: phaedon

phaedon — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:19:12 -0800

Also, the cat belongs on the other side of the keys.

By: thinman

thinman — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:28:13 -0800

Previously.

By: parm=serial

parm=serial — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:39:56 -0800

Aww crapitty crap, thinman. I thought a search for cat and piano would pretty much cover all bases. I suck teh search...

By: Roman Graves

Roman Graves — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:51:34 -0800

This FPP should have been about Kircher's cat piano.

By: thinman

thinman — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:53:45 -0800

Funny thing is, I never saw that other post when it was fresh. But I did see the piano playing cat on Boing Boing, which meant it must've been posted here as well.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:54:32 -0800

Yeah but parm=serial, nobody included the sequel. :) And the sequel really is way better, with purring, duets and soulful limpid-pools-for-eyes. Initially I thought Nora was just tapping the keys for non-musical reasons but in the duets and with her watching the other music students, she really does seem to want to make music somehow and participate. It's quite charming.

By: grubi

grubi — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:56:16 -0800

This cat is awesome. I keep trying to figure out what motivates her (the sound, knowing she can cause sound from a short distance, vibrations, the reaction of other people, what have you), but I'm stumped. We have two cats ad so I know a little something about them, but this is a toughie to figure out. She's darn cute, fer sher.

By: ericb

ericb — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:44:01 -0800

Previously. Yes and also previously.

By: naoko

naoko — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:02:53 -0800

Oh man, I love Nora. Nora was on CNN this morning. I was in my office building's coffee shop and everyone was staring at the tv and chuckling. On the one hand, it seemed kind of lame to have animal tricks on CNN, but on the other hand, it's been a pretty depressing couple of weeks news-wise, so it was really great seeing all these people watching the morning news and smiling. My cat looks like Nora. I tried to get her to do this, and had absolutely no luck.

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:15:33 -0800

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By: ericb

ericb — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:18:13 -0800

By: LordSludge

LordSludge — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:30:37 -0800

Daaaaamn, that cat can play!

By: Quietgal

Quietgal — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:31:47 -0800

Pfft. A cat who merely plays the piano? Scarlatti's cat composed at the keyboard. Er, on the keyboard.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:16:41 -0800

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By: zbaco

zbaco — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:40:11 -0800

Alright, in light of this post and recent posts, the following just has to be said: i can has play piano? lolzkitteh I'm on ur pianoz, playin ur tunez.... Yeah, I know, don't post to MetaFilter while half-asleep...

By: hincandenza

hincandenza — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:56:28 -0800

Obligatory video.

By: pracowity

pracowity — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:59:13 -0800

My cat Tom is also pretty good.

By: zamboni

zamboni — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:33:55 -0800

I've met Nora. She's a nice cat. Burnell & Betsy are similarly awesome.

By: spitbull

spitbull — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:18:03 -0800

It's pretty obvious to me that they've put catnip or some other attractant between the keys. Ha ha.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:41:55 -0800

Quietgal, Lovely story about Scarlatti's cat. hincandenza, Nice first chuckle of the day, thanks, the human cat vid was delightful.

By: humblepigeon

humblepigeon — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:46:11 -0800

Does anybody else reckon a recently deceased classical pianist had really bad karma, and was reincarnated as a cat?

By: unknowncommand

unknowncommand — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:54:19 -0800

My cat is officially useless.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:17:31 -0800

sourwookie: "fs8uhadfnk v dvdjdvan xs z XZJMC DC AOJKNSxckmdsjkd fdxmndenjxdn kndajkc vxckjkfsjfsjkn kdfs flmlfsojfs fd fgdpklgvckllsljkeankfv xvlmdekkd fmknfgfknjd d fs fs knfsfs edOJ04W9URW9U8RW GV VXN KNSDFGKNFSOLJF" Previously

By: homunculus

homunculus — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:16:46 -0800

Jon Stewart just laid the blame for Virgina Tech at Nora's feet, er, paws. Stop enabling this monster, MeFi!