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| Music to their ears: Paul Barton dragged a piano up a mountain in Thailand so he could play Beethoven for blind elephants (Picture: Caters). |
-Elephants never forget, according to the saying – and these ones will always remember when Briton Paul Barton serenaded them with Beethoven.
MR Barton, 50, dragged his piano up a mountain in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, to help raise money for blind elephants.
He said: 'It was a 50th birthday present to myself. My wife and I have been working with blind elephants for many years, and I thought it might be something they would enjoy to listen to.
'I sat down and thought, what do you play to an elephant?
'You only get a short time, so I started trawling through my books and then Slow Movement 2 from Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata just stuck.
'I had to drag the piano up a mountain - I have a really bad back, but I wanted to make the effort so I could feel like I had undergone a personal challenge.'
Yorkshire-born Paul now hopes to put on a concert with the elephants to raise funds for an electric fence for the sanctuary where they live.
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