A teenage piano prodigy can play note-perfect renditions of the world's most complicated compositions - but can't read sheet music and has never had a lesson.

Self-taught George Townsend, 17, got his first children's toy piano for Christmas from mum Sarah, 50, when he was just five-years-old.

She noticed he was pretty good at making up his own tunes and copying songs he heard, so he was upgraded him to a proper keyboard a few years later.

The prodigious pianist is seen here on Wednesday (November 20).

A teenage piano prodigy can play note perfect renditions of the world's most complicated compositions - but can't read sheet music and has never had a lesson. Self-taught George Townsend, 17, got his first children's toy piano for Christmas from mum Sarah, 50, when he was just five-years-old. She noticed he was pretty good at making up his own tunes and copying songs he heard, so upgraded him to a proper keyboard a few years later.

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