00:00Piano music floating past ancient red rocks and gum trees.
00:10A delightful surprise for two Alice Springs locals.
00:16Amazing.
00:18Nine-year-old Wilbur learning piano and his mum Penny, a piano teacher.
00:22Absolutely phenomenal to just magically be here in this moment with a beautiful, full-of-character grand piano in our amazing Stanley Cousin.
00:38Serendipitous timing for the perfect audience.
00:41To be able to have the rocks and trees listening, it's just very special, yeah, very intimate moment and I think a once-in-a-lifetime moment really.
00:50The backdrop breathtaking and so was the work to carry the piano in for father and son duo Kelvin and Highland Smith.
01:02Kelvin and Highland worked through the night, taking six hours of gruelling lifting, rolling and manoeuvring along this narrow, rocky trail to push the 350 kilogram piano, 1.2 kilometres to the chasm.
01:19A sweaty task.
01:22I have no idea how they got a grand piano through that path.
01:28But the challenge was worth it.
01:33It's sitting here beautifully and the most spectacular stage you could imagine.
01:38The nature, the scenery, the beautiful music that's playing, it all comes together and is really quite lovely.
01:46Their effort's part of a broader purpose to make others smile.
01:50I just love the idea of taking music out into nature and with the hope that, you know, it might help a few people smile.
01:57And for the lucky few who just happened to be there, it was a spontaneous moment of joy.
02:07My memory.
02:21My memory.
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