Bach for an Elephant
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Setting: A gentle female elephant, Seetong, seems to enjoy listening to soothing, slow piano music. The piece she is listening to is Bach’s Prelude No. 1 from WTC Book 1.
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I think that Bach would love this!
Thanks for more beautiful solo piano with elephant audience.
I love her stillness as she waits for the chords to finally resolve. I feel the same way when I listen to this prelude.
This is SOOOO beautiful on EVERY LEVEL !!!!!!
The elephant on the left enjoys the music.
It has such soulful eyes. Very relaxed.
💜💜💜 🐘🐘🐘
So beautiful ❤❤
Looks like a paradise! ❤
I'm not sure I could take the heat/humidity of Thailand, but you're right: anyplace with elephants and Paul playing is as close to heaven as this life gets.
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That's incredible Mr Barton.
Well id be scared..
God bless you sir and that elephant.
That's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen anyone do ❤❤❤
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Beautiful! Thank you for taking time for these gorgeous rescued elephants. I wish I was there singing 🎵 to them..Cheers from Australia.
God Bless you and these magnificent beings!!!!!!💖
I've been watching these back to back. 😊❤ Actually, an hour long video about how you guys set this up would be fascinating! Wish I was an editor, so I could volunteer to do it for you.
Blessings to the Bartons: we know it's a family affair! ❤❤❤
I remember playing this Bach prelude when I was 12 at the academy of music, one of the few ones that I really liked., (I hated Bach's music). These elephants loved it, what a wonderful life you have, thanks for the upload.
What a beautiful performance…majestic elephant and lovely, peaceful piano recital…thank you ( I’m in England)
The music & the connection is Simply Divine.... Thank you from India! 😍❣🙏
She's a very attentive listener!
👋🏻It is a beautiful and perfect scene, what a pleasure it gives us all to be able to enjoy this very real experience ♥️
Leave it to Bach to put you in a musical trance.✨Thank you, Paul.👏🏽👏🏽
I needed the peace and kindness from this. ❤
Какой красивый слоник! Так мило смотреть, как слоники слушают музыку! Это чудесно! ❤
Love you!!❤🐘
Two giants,and one play the piano !!❤❤❤❤
So sweet!
Thanks to your whole family…. What a treat you are.
Wow! That bird is singing at 1:04 along hits those notes quite precisely :) Thank you for this video and spreading peach, joy and harmony all around the world! May God bless you and your loved ones.
Beautiful
TAKE US WITH YOU!
La musica di Bach raggiunge la vetta più alta della beatitudine di ogni specie.
Gli elefanti hanno compreso questo dono e sono in piena armonia con Paul.
Simply beautiful. I continue to be amazed at how much Seetong seems to sway along to the melody. Thank you for the music and your kindness toward these magnificent elephants, Mr. Barton.
I wonder what elephants actually hear. They have low frequency hearing and infrasound hearing which we humans can not hear. Dogs and dolphins can hear high decibel sounds so they can hear overtones. When we play a single note, we humans often only hear the fundamental pitch while a dog may hear 16 or more pitches. So we may hear music when someone plays but dogs hear elbows across the keyboard. So elephants probably hear . . . have you ever heard a band playing a mile away? What you predominately hear is the bass thumping because those low decibel sound waves or vibrations can penetrate buildings and trees and can travel long distances while higher decibel sounds can't. So elephants probably hear a lot of bass but more intriguing, I believe they feel the vibrations more than they hear. So that elephant probably hears mostly the left hand but more intriguing to him are the vibrations he both hears and feels. They must be vibrations they have never encountered in the wild. Elephants are probably tuned in to hearing water vibrations or footsteps of a predator. I have never done this but I imagine it would be like trying on a pair of someone's custom tweaked hearing aids which amplifies only the frequencies they can't hear anymore. To someone with normal hearing it might sound wrong. A better analogy is putting on someone else's prescription eye glasses. So I suspect these elephants are not enjoying the melody, harmony or chord progressions but are actually experiencing some sort of emotional or physical massage of vibrations. Kind of like my dog who likes to sleep with her head on my chest. If I think that it is time to get up it must affect my heart rate because she immediately knows and jumps up before I make a move. She also knows when I am done eating and it is time for her to lick the plate because she knows the sound of the fork being placed on the table. Animals are geniuses in their own ways thanks to their hearing.
Any audiologists out there who can shed light on this topic?
Simplesmente maravilhoso...❤❤❤
J'ai plongé mes yeux dans les yeux de ce magnifique éléphant et c'est comme si nous ressentions la musique tous les deux pareillement 🎶🐘💕🎶Très beau sentiment 🎶
Бах- КОСМОС!
Слон- Красивый!
Мистер Бартон- Профи!🙏🎹💯❤️
Very good 👍 ❤
❤❤❤ absolutely love this ❤
Do you think an Elephant would prefer a bass instrument as they are in a lower register like their vocalizations?
Fantástico gracias 🧡
Excellent!
Love that get so close to next to piano and player
Wonderful 🎹 🐘❣️🙂🙃🙂
Волшебно❤❤❤
elephant seems to carefully and quietly listen 😊❤
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*So happy*
Sits on piano.
Yo bro, I live half an hour south Hua Hin in a wildlife park, therefore I don't need to mention that I love nature and animals more than humans, also piano is clearly my favorite instrument. If possible, I would like to calmly and discretely observe next time you'll plan an "outdoor elephant piano concert"? Should be very rich and intense vibration and energy flowing around... Or any other animals outdoor, have lot of cows around here, they love music too, could be nice too, have you ever consider to?
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Mr. Barton, with that sort of pressure, from an elephant, you better not screw up that Prelude. Haha!
Have you tried transposing a piece down an octave or more. Given the extended low frequency hearing ability of elephants, the melody maybe be more pleasing for them, in a lower frequency range.
Your videos are a ray of sunshine in a bleak world. Have you contacted zoos and rehab centers and asked about them playing music for their elephants?
They’d go nuts for a bit of Chas n Dave
In a world which is overrun with load banging and shouting so-called pop music, at least there remains an elephant who can appreciate the sound of Bach.
It looks like swinging her tail is Seetong's way of tapping her toes.
Ha più capacità di ascolto See dong di noi umani ....
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