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๐Ÿคฆ It's probably every musician's worst nightmare: imagine yourself sitting on stage ready to play a concerto and the orchestra begins to perform a completely different piece...๐Ÿ˜ฎ That's exactly what happened to the great Maria Joรฃo Pires in 1999 when she stepped in to replace another pianist on short...

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In 2005 a piano teacher in the United States and her husband were upstairs in their house when they heard the piano going downstairs. The same note, struck over and over. They thought someone had broken in. They ran down and found their cat, a grey tabby called Nora, alone on the bench, hammering at one key with her right paw. She looked up at them, then went back to it. The cat had taught herself. Noraโ€™s owner Betsy gave piano lessons in that room every day. Over the months Nora had watched, and at some point decided sheโ€™d have a go. None of the other six cats in the house ever touched the piano. Only Nora. She had preferences. Sheโ€™d only play one specific Yamaha. She gravitated to a particular range of notes in the middle of the keyboard. She refused to play if she couldnโ€™t sit properly on the bench, and if a student annoyed her Betsy would shift the bench back a foot and Nora would simply quit for the day. A video of Nora went up on YouTube in 2007 and got 17 million views. The Times of London compared her playing to a mix of Philip Glass and free jazz. Americaโ€™s National Science Foundation, the countryโ€™s main scientific research body, put her in a museum exhibit on animal behaviour. In 2009 a composer in Lithuania scored a full orchestral concerto around her recordings. It premiered live with a chamber orchestra in Lithuania, with Noraโ€™s playing on a screen above them. They called it CATcerto. Most animals who do impressive things have been trained. Nora wasnโ€™t. She picked it up by watching, which is observational learning, and itโ€™s rare in cats. Dogs do it more often. Cats usually donโ€™t bother copying us at all. Nora passed peacefully in 2024, on her favourite blanket, aged 19.

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