The Internet’s Going Bonkers Over This 71-Year-Old Pianist Playing Everyones Requests Via Live Stream

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Sometimes the internet can be a wonderful place, and today this 71-year-old guy is proving it.

Known as Bernie (AKA pianoimproman) the professional pianist, singer, composer and live-streamer is gaining a viral legion of fans by taking song requests and belting out epic renditions on his piano.

With the help of his wife Mindy running the chat forum, Bernie tickles the ivories of his 1957 Steinway Grand piano and takes requests from his 30K+ average viewers.

As the chat feed goes bloody ballistic with requests, songs from a diverse range of genres are picked out and improvised. As well as his phenomenal piano skills, he’s also proved that he’s handy at the recorder as well…

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Quickly shooting up the ranks on the Reddit charts, Bernie’s been blown away by his newfound fame and provides A+ chat to thank his fans and people making donations.

You can watch the stream below or via Bernie’s Twitch.TV channel.

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