This is the impressive moment a plumber recreated an electronic dance music hit - on toilet pipes.

Footage from the plumber's workshop shows a friend playing the popular EDM song 'Astronomia' from his phone. After listening to it once, the musically gifted pensioner replicated the beat.

He struck the PVC pipes commonly used in sewage systems with his hands to recreate the tune with the correct pitches in Hebei, China, on July 27.

He said he had constructed the makeshift xylophone instrument from various long white plastic tubes of different lengths.

Tuned percussion instruments typically have bars or tubes made of wood or metal, arranged in a scale.

The bars are struck with mallets to produce sound. The length and thickness of each bar determine the pitch, with shorter and thinner bars producing higher notes, while longer and thicker bars produce lower notes.