Luke Howard is hoping his piano playing will win back his ex (Picture: SWNS)

The man who vowed to play piano continuously until his ex-girlfriend of four months took him back has ended his bid after being punched in the head.

Luke Howard set up his piano on College Green in the centre of Bristol on Saturday to let his former partner – he only referred to as ‘Rapunzel’ – know how he felt about her.

Man vows to play piano non-stop until ex of four months takes him back

But his stunt spectacularly backfired as he was labelled a ‘stalker’, ‘sociopath’, and ‘creep’ by thousands on social media who failed to sympathise with his plight.

The 34-year-old musician from Bath explained to i that he was punched in the head at 4am on Sunday morning although he didn’t give up his piano playing bid until Monday.




He wrote that while he had turned himself into the ‘largest fool in the West Country’, he did not care if the ‘whole world hated’ him as he was just a guy ‘naively’ trying to show someone how much he loved them.

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Luke Howard went for a grand gesture to try and win back his ex-girlfriend (Picture: SWNS)

‘I stopped playing yesterday because I realised that what I had wanted to do had spectacularly failed,’ he added.

‘The social media reaction turned it very quickly into something that would cause the one person I didn’t want to hurt embarrassment and pain. That was the last thing in the world I had wanted to happen, so I left.

I do not blame or in fact feel anything negative towards anyone who has commented on what I decided to do. On the contrary, the lack of understanding just reminds me of how very rare a thing pure love actually is.’

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