If there was ever a creative genius with a calculator – or two – this Japanese man has to be it. After all, how many people can play an entire song on it? Or ten?
This man can. Not only did he brilliantly, play Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s Despacito on it (video above) note for note , he also covered Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of You, Smash Mouth’s 1999 hit All Star, and several other songs.
Sometimes the numbers add up in mysterious ways.
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