🎹 Last Night's Episode Of 'The Piano' Had Us In Tears!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation the Piano Last night, Brother, my friend, Brother.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
I've had more response to this show than any TV
I've done, I think, and it's such a beautiful show.
A friend of mine said, it's love, hope, grief all
set to music, and it really is. This is what
I often says, you scratch the surface. Everybody has a
story on this show if you haven't seen it. People
come down who just love the piano to play a
public piano for the love of the piano.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
People just don't come down randomly.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
No, the word went out, you know, people said, We said,
we're making a documentary about people's love of the piano.
People applied and then we selected people to come down
in various locations. Last nights was at Preston Markets in Melbourne.
So people are selling fruit and vege all around us.
And what they don't know the people who come to
play the piano is that Harry Connick Junior and Andrea Lamb,

(00:50):
who's Australia's greatest classical pianist, are watching on just from
a nearby room, and they select their favorite performer, not
necessarily the best, their favorite who's going to perform in
a concert at the end. Yet last night we met Stefania.
She's twelve years old. She's been looting the piano since
she was five. She wants to be a cardiologist when
she's older. And Brendan she happened to like my partners.

(01:13):
My name is Stefanie Daphanier. Come and join me here.
You look fabulous. Thank you. I feel a little off
key in comparison so of a good pun. Thank Finally
someone appreciates my puns. Thank you, I got the veiled
de stab at you I got well. I've had so
many comments about Michelle, who was on the show last night.

(01:34):
Michelle is in her sixties and she's been facing She's
got a lot of problems. She is blind and she
is deaf.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Growing up, I had only very little vision. It wasn't
until about three years ago that I had to have
my eye removed. So due to chronic ear infections and
cancer in my ears, I lost my hearing about twenty
years ago. I could have either gave up and said

(02:06):
poor me, poor me, I can't do anything. However, I'm
not here to sit in a cupboard and feel sorry
for myself. That's for sure. I'm one of the very
few dafline pianists in the world.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Wow, she's amazing. And I spoke to her through an
interpreter who really type, not they types out uses her
hands to tell her what I'm saying, makes the shapes
of the woods in Michelle's hands as I'm talking, and
then someone stands behind her and touches her back to
tell her what the environment is. And one of the

(02:42):
defining images for me at the very end of that
was the person standing behind her looking like making rain
motions on Michelle's back to say, people are applauding you.
It was incredible. She wrote a song about her first
guide dog, Alan.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Still missed the guy very very much.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Do you think about Alan when you play this song.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
All the time, all the time when they you hear
my performance. I really hope that people sort of think,
you know, a disability is not a disability unless you
allow it to be. And that's something I really strongly
believe in.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Wise words, and have you listen to how powerful the
song is. Oh, that's Harry responding to it.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
It was so moving.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
But how does she do it? How does she do?

Speaker 1 (03:45):
What does she do?

Speaker 2 (03:46):
How does she do it?

Speaker 1 (03:47):
I can get my knuckle on.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
That's beautiful, so inspiring, So the piano. You can watch
it on ABC on Sunday nights, or all the episodes
are there to watch on ABC.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
I view and I appreciate your pans.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Shall you do