How does Tom know how to play the piano ???

Question

im watching Tom & Jerry and Tom is twinkling away on the old ivories ! A Cat !!

Answer 1

He learnt at the music a(cat)demy of course!

:-)

Answer 2

I think the cartoon characters get special lessons where they learn to play with only 4 fingers on a hand instead of 5. There's a guy in Hollywood who specializes in this. I think maybe he keeps catnip, doggie bones and carrots around his school/studio. The animals get treats when the hit the right notes.

Of course, some characters (like Yosemite Sam, Bugs Bunny) just learn to pick and hunt with two fingers, and it sounds like it. When playing "Those Darling Young Men"(?) Bugs always hits the wrong note, no matter how many times I watch the cartoon. Yosemite gets it right but, of course, there's a contact switch for dynamite on that last note and he never learns either, even though he set it up. (Skippy the squirrel from Animaniacs even plays that same song but manages to never get blown up...)

Monty Python, of course, demonstrated how to get mice to squeak "3 Blind Mice" using a giant wodden mallet and a cage full of mice laid out in a row...

Answer 3

the creators of tom and jerry forced him to learn and he did!! so that is my theory to how he learnt also on the aristocats the KITTENS can play the piano on there!!

Answer 4

My cat taught him everything he knows.

Answer 5

the clue is , its a cartoon.. anythings possible ;-)

or maybe that woman whose slippers you only ever see taught him =)