How Can Cats Play the Piano?
Send To A Friend Many try to become Internet and YouTube sensations, but most fail. Piano-playing cats, however, have succeeded where others have fizzled into obscurity. Well over 16 million people have viewed “Nora the Piano Cat” on YouTube. (Lithuanian conductor Mindaugas Piecaitis even composed a Catcerto symphony for Nora.) And now there’s Schmaltzy, a New York shelter rescue that Animal Fair magazine has called “a feline prodigy” and what “may just be the most famous cat in the world.” Owner Sharon Lampert has that last quote inscribed on the cover of her book, In America, Even a Cat Can Have a Dream: Schmaltzy: The Piano Virtuoso. Schmaltzy’s international fan club seems to prove that people the world over are smitten with Schmaltzy the shorthair tabby and other piano-playing felines. Schmaltzy’s Story Schmaltzy was only 8 weeks old when Lampert adopted the cat from the North Shore Animal League Rescue Shelter in Port Washington, N.Y. “I walked into the cat adoption room, and in
