Featured Video: Multi-talented Police Horse Plays the Piano

It’s Friday. You’ve had a long week. It’s time to sit back, relax, and enjoy the musical stylings of one equine piano prodigy.

This fantastic video, featuring an imposing police horse named General Stark trying out a new tune on a pink piano, comes to us from Manchester, New Hampshire, where Stark is a member of the force.

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The piano is part of a project called Keys to the City, where three pianos are available to the public around the city so that everyone—human or equine—can hone their musical skills or show off their talents on the keys. The pianos were painted by students from the New Hampshire Institute of Art.

The pianos were unveiled as part of the Manchester Community Market, a farmers’ market held throughout the summer in the city’s Victory Park.

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Leslie Potter

Leslie Potter is a graduate of William Woods University where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Equestrian Science with a concentration in saddle seat riding and a minor in Journalism/Mass Communications. She is currently a writer and photographer in Lexington, Ky. Potter worked as a barn manager and riding instructor and was a freelance reporter and photographer for the Horsemen's Yankee Pedlar and Saddle Horse Report before moving to Lexington to join Horse Illustrated as Web Editor from 2008 to 2019. Her current equestrian pursuits include being a grown-up lesson kid at an eventing barn and trail riding with her senior Morgan gelding, Snoopy.

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Ann says:

June 26, 2017 at 6:49 am

I love it, serves the community and provides entertainment besides! Great job equine police!
Marion says:

June 28, 2017 at 3:59 am

He can have a second job at a night club at night time, bouncer and piano player! LOL!
Brenda says:

July 2, 2017 at 6:02 am

Talented horse for sure, and fun for his humans to see that he helps to protect!
CeCe says:

July 3, 2017 at 3:59 am

What a great way to promote the friendliness of the equine mounted patrol!
Joy says:

August 28, 2017 at 4:00 am

Talented and a great way to show the people horses have a sense of humor too!
Jenny says:

September 15, 2017 at 3:58 am

How cute, see even horses like music!
Andrea says:

September 17, 2017 at 6:31 am

I used to love going to Central Park in the City and seeing the mounted patrol! Miss that living away from there now!
Bonnie says:

November 27, 2017 at 3:51 am

Very cute, he's in B flat however! LOL!
Alica says:

December 16, 2017 at 3:50 am

Very talented!