MEET the real key worker - a hospital cleaner who is soothing patients, doctors and visitors with regular note-perfect performance on a piano.

Chris Klensberg, 65, has been a cleaner at Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, for the past three years.

But recently he has been turning his talents elsewhere by treating doctors, patients and visitors to some music.

There has been a piano in the atrium of the hospital and tickling the ivories for up to an hour and a half every Friday evening since it arrived.

The full-time cleaner said: "I love playing and I love to hear the sound of those wonderful songs that have been written by talented songwriters,

"When I'm just sitting here you don't know if there's anybody listening at all, you get caught up in the song.

"Sometimes it's a nice surprise when somebody comes up to me.''

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Chris, from Woolavington, Bridgwater, has a sign saying 'The Singing Cleaner' attached to his cleaning trolley, because he can't stop himself from performing even when away from the keys.

"It's a compromise because I can't play keyboard when I'm working," he said.

The talented pianist received hundreds of compliments through Twitter after Somerset Foundation Trust tweeted a video of him playing last month.

Chris doesn't have Twitter, so a colleague had to print off the tweets for him to read and witness the impact of his music.

The performer writes his own arrangements of popular songs by Frank Sinatra, Elton John and from the Phantom of the Opera.

He said: "I've been messing around with the piano but I've been a bit lazy about it, I've been procrastinating for years,

"I've been able to read music since I was about 15, but not put it much to use until I went to Bridgwater College as a mature student in 1991 and I got free piano lessons,

"I took O-level music when I was 15 and learnt to read music and developed my hearing - but I actually failed the exam.

"But I have been building it up gradually and even had a music residency at a hotel about two or three years ago,

"Now I play here for a maximum of an hour and three quarters every week - time goes by really fast when you're enjoying yourself."

Chris cites his musical heroes as Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie, Nat King Cole and Erroll Garner, and aims to share his joy of music with as many people as possible.

He said: "I feel sorry for the patients at the moment who are in the hospital. It's a pity they cant benefit,

"My dream is to have a piano in every ward of every hospital."